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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,8b756d9a0afb052a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Quick question about Ada code formatting. References: <43F7915B.3090000@obry.net> <43F83D46.2090200@obry.net> <43F84890.7010900@obry.net> <43f871d8$0$491$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <43F872C4.50505@obry.net> <43F8CE76.3040602@obry.net> In-Reply-To: <43F8CE76.3040602@obry.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:32:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.150.72.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1140409977 67.150.72.179 (Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:32:57 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:32:57 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3002 Date: 2006-02-20T04:32:57+00:00 List-Id: 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 10