Re: another way to shoot yourself in the foot?

[Gary Scott <garylscott@sbcglobal.net>]

Colin Paul Gloster wrote:
> Jeffrey R. Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org> wrote in message 
> news:brz7k.167222$TT4.46081@attbi_s22 ...
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> |" Robert A Duff wrote: 
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> |> As Dmitry pointed out, with this idea, there's no need for the "return 
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> |> Result;". 
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> | True, but I find it easier to understand the function if it has the 
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> | "return Result;"," 
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> I believe that "return Result;" is fine. It is true that it is not
> necessary, in much the same way that IN is redundant for a function's
> mode. Some people had criticized IN for a function for the same
> reason, but people who use many languages (or instead, who do not
> program much) should not be forced to memorize all the ramifications
> of particular language semantics if a piece of excess syntax makes it
> clear for them.
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> |" even though I came to Ada from a Pascal background." 
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> Speaking of which, after my unsuccessful job application to you
> earlier this year (thank you for having the decency to treat my
> application properly though, as did other some contributors to this
> newsgroup when I applied to them, but unfortunately a number of others
> were disrespectful) I very recently joined a group of people who on
> average do not work predominantly as programmers. The languages which
> I have been told are in some of their backgrounds are FORTRAN and C++,
> and we have FORTRAN and C++ codebases which I should improve. How
> better to start than by porting to Ada!?

Or Fortran 95 or Fortran 2003 (ok, 2003 is nearly available)
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> Regards,
> Colin Paul Gloster 
> 
> 


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