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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a0c:f482:: with SMTP id i2mr44317534qvm.233.1563664135788; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 16:08:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a9d:3e4e:: with SMTP id h14mr44390010otg.182.1563664135507; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 16:08:55 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!b26no7825226qtq.0!news-out.google.com!a5ni1296qtd.0!nntp.google.com!b26no7825224qtq.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 16:08:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <92e7979a-fac9-412e-b0ef-b56a928a5d2f@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=47.185.223.245; posting-account=zwxLlwoAAAChLBU7oraRzNDnqQYkYbpo NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.185.223.245 References: <2872112d-6e9c-4f4c-a7cb-070adae957ca@googlegroups.com> <92e7979a-fac9-412e-b0ef-b56a928a5d2f@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: How to make Ada popular. Get rid of ";" at end of statement. From: Optikos Injection-Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 23:08:55 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:56909 Date: 2019-07-20T16:08:55-07:00 List-Id: On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 2:17:39 PM UTC-5, AdaMagica wrote: > Am Samstag, 20. Juli 2019 21:10:27 UTC+2 schrieb Optikos: > > (instead of best-practice fix-it transforms of their source code). >=20 > What's that? Although primarily utilized by Apple in Xcode to regurgitate deprecated old= source code into the new-era breaking-change refreshed source code to perm= it Swift source-code bases in the user community to not get fossilized in s= ome earlier revision of the language (so that no shop has an excuse to lag = behind in language versions), fix-its can also be utilized to transform com= mon programming anti-pattern/bad-habit idioms into best-practice idioms wit= hin the same era of Swift, not crossing revision-of-language boundaries. I= t is fix-its that motivate thinking of Xcode as pronounced trans*-code inst= ead of pronounced ecks code. * trans(form), as in xlat short for translat(ion tables) in EE & assembly-l= anguage subcultures https://www.lynda.com/Xcode-tutorials/Correct-errors-Fix-it/504071/558556-4= .html