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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: Quick question about Ada code formatting.
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:32:57 GMT
Date: 2006-02-20T04:32:57+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZDbKf.3344$JR6.762@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43F8CE76.3040602@obry.net>

Pascal Obry wrote:
> I just do not agree, it helps a lot browsing and looking for a specific
> routine in a source file. It is not a really comment certainly not
> something you can compare with "Add 1 to X" ! It is a kind of separator
> that clearly stand out. BTW, this is the GNAT style, a style that I use
> for AWS... But again this is just one style.

I seem to have no difficulty finding subprograms in source code without block 
comments that duplicate the code. "procedure" and "function" at the proper 
indentation levels are quite easy to detect. Add an editor that colors reserved 
words and such comment blocks seem less than useless.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Perfidious English mouse-dropping hoarders."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-20  4:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-18 12:19 Quick question about Ada code formatting Peter C. Chapin
2006-02-18 13:00 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-02-18 13:26 ` Simon Wright
2006-02-18 15:36   ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-02-18 16:52     ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-02-19  0:27     ` Simon Wright
2006-02-19  4:17       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-02-19  9:51         ` Simon Wright
2006-02-19 15:23           ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-19 22:32             ` Simon Wright
2006-02-19 12:23       ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-02-19 22:23         ` Simon Wright
2006-02-22 22:15         ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-22 23:13           ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-02-23 12:50             ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-23 15:40               ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-02-18 19:16   ` Pascal Obry
2006-02-18 21:16   ` Peter C. Chapin
2006-02-18 21:27     ` Pascal Obry
2006-02-19  0:10       ` Simon Wright
2006-02-19  9:41         ` Pascal Obry
2006-02-19  9:57           ` Simon Wright
2006-02-19 10:29             ` Pascal Obry
2006-02-19 12:31               ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-02-19 13:29                 ` Pascal Obry
2006-02-19 15:20                   ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-20  6:33                     ` Brian May
2006-02-20 18:07                       ` Pascal Obry
2006-02-22 22:21                       ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-20  8:17                     ` Lionel Draghi
2006-02-20 19:07                       ` Martin Krischik
2006-02-22 22:30                       ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-22 22:39                         ` Pascal Obry
2006-02-23 12:56                           ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-23 15:02                             ` Martin Krischik
2006-02-24 10:13                               ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-24 19:02                                 ` Martin Krischik
2006-02-24 23:29                                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-02-20 18:52                     ` Pascal Obry
2006-02-21  8:07                       ` Alex R. Mosteo
2006-02-22 22:32                         ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-23  6:02                           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-02-23 12:58                             ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-19 19:25                   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-02-19 20:00                     ` Pascal Obry
2006-02-19 22:27                       ` Simon Wright
2006-02-20  4:32                       ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2006-02-20 22:10                   ` Randy Brukardt
2006-02-22 22:36                     ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-23  9:49                       ` Alex R. Mosteo
2006-02-23 12:42                       ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-02-24 10:15                         ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-20  7:11         ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-02-21 21:23           ` Simon Wright
2006-02-19 15:17       ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-18 14:43 ` Martin Krischik
2006-02-18 20:21 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-02-19 10:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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