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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,c75fd3043cfdcb58 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.180.24.135 with SMTP id u7mr1207610wif.3.1344265219272; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:00:19 -0700 (PDT) Path: n2ni72890354win.0!nntp.google.com!feed-C.news.volia.net!volia.net!news2.volia.net!feed-A.news.volia.net!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!border2.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border4.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.panservice.it!news.unit0.net!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-weimar.de!not-for-mail From: stefan-lucks@see-the.signature Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Formatted IO - Fortran style or similar. Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 08:56:20 +0200 Organization: Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar Message-ID: References: <50164ad8$0$1156$5b6aafb4@news.zen.co.uk> <501706ca$0$1151$5b6aafb4@news.zen.co.uk> <87lii06t5t.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> Reply-To: stefan-lucks@see-the.signature NNTP-Posting-Host: medsec1.medien.uni-weimar.de Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: tigger.scc.uni-weimar.de 1343807798 14110 141.54.178.228 (1 Aug 2012 07:56:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@tigger.scc.uni-weimar.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 07:56:38 +0000 (UTC) X-X-Sender: lucks@medsec1.medien.uni-weimar.de In-Reply-To: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: 2012-08-01T08:56:20+02:00 List-Id: On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Adam Beneschan wrote: > It's not a question of what anyone "needs" or what "works". Yes, this > works, but I can understand why, for some people, it makes things more > readable to have the string that represents what the output is going to > look like all in once nice place, rather than split up into fragments > with expressions in between. I find that sometimes doing it that way is > a bit more readable, although I don't have a strong preference. Whenever people ask "why doesn't ada support this language feature from language X", I first try to figure out how to solve that the Ada way, without using a feature from another language. Sometimes, these people manage to give convincing evidence why Ada should support such a new language feature. In the current case, I have yet to see any convincing evidence ... -- ---- Stefan.Lucks (at) uni-weimar.de, University of Weimar, Germany ---- ------ I love the taste of Cryptanalysis in the morning! ------