Re: Refactoring and Ada

["Pat Rogers" <progers@classwide.com>]

"Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com> wrote in message
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> "Pat Rogers" <progers@classwide.com> wrote in message
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> > "Richard Riehle" <richard@adaworks.com> wrote in message
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> > >  At present, one must wonder about the usefulness of 'Valid.
> >
> > What's the exegesis for this?
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> It's superfluous.  If you don't use enumeration representation clauses, the
> need for 'Valid disappears.
>
> Don't use enumeration representation clauses.  Use named integer constants
> instead.

Agreed.

> Don't use enumeration representation clauses.  Don't use 'Valid.

Saying not to use 'Valid is too much, IMHO.  Sometimes one has to get scalar
values -- not just enumerals -- from external sources, and there 'Valid can be
useful.

No, I was asking for the exegesis in terms of the RM for Richard's much more
sweeping "comdemnation" of the attribute.  ("Condemnation" is too strong here,
but you get the idea.)