From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,db5c6b2ef47d4b9e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-22 12:17:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B30F836.D700DAA3@raytheon.com> <3B32038D.F1296C79@cadence.com> <3B336844.9B58ED9A@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> Subject: Re: short-circuit control forms (& 'long names are doom') Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:16:53 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 19:16:53 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9041 Date: 2001-06-22T19:16:53+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B336844.9B58ED9A@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>, Wes Groleau says... > > >> There was an interesting thread on this subject back in 95 (search for short >> circuit in the Google archives of comp.lang.ada). > >Didn't work. Seeral search methods only returned parts >of this (current) thread. The top of the thread in google can be found at http://groups.google.com/groups?&th=8b7a8d2b810c767b,15&start=0&ic=1 . >> I found Tucker Taft's comment particularly interesting: ( http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8b7a8d2b810c767b,15&start=3&ic=1 ) >I hope he's listening, because without seeing the whole post, >I strongly suspect that his answer was "no" You'd be wrong. :-( The general gist I got from the thread is that both Tucker and Robert Dewar agreed that this is mostly a religous issue, and that both of them subsribe to short-circuitism. Robert said (in http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8b7a8d2b810c767b,15&start=6&ic=1 ): >I personally prefer the second style, but in any case it is clear >that you need to choose one particular style and stick to it. For >example, GNAT always uses the second style. "second style" being using short-circuit forms by default. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com