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From: doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle)
Subject: Re: Interface/Implementation (was Re: Design by Contract)
Date: 1997/09/10
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In article <mheaney-ya023680001009970904100001@news.ni.net>,
Matthew Heaney <mheaney@ni.net> wrote:
>
>In article <EGAqKI.GsE.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com>,
>stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) wrote:
>
>>One typical coding style adopted
>>for Ada package bodies is:
>>
>>     <declarations of local subprograms>
>>
>>     <bodies for visible subprograms>
>>
>>     <bodies for local subprograms>
>>
>>Given this style, the bodies can be ordered in any way that is convenient.
>
>Funny, I didn't understand Don's comment, because I thought that everyone
>already did this.

This seems to further diminish the value of dependency-ordered declarations.

Then we must ask, if everyone puts all the declarations at the top anyway,
why not let the computer do it for us?

 -PD
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Patrick Doyle
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