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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a92e43963a6b930f X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!x21g2000yqa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Shark8 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: N best things about Ada? Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:05:56 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <97691fd2-7411-4ccc-bc7b-290aca633cd5@z30g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 174.28.205.195 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1278943556 4854 127.0.0.1 (12 Jul 2010 14:05:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:05:56 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: x21g2000yqa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=174.28.205.195; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100504 Firefox/3.5.10 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 4.0.20506),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12339 Date: 2010-07-12T07:05:56-07:00 List-Id: People have mentioned packages, non-textual-substitution generics, and such. But one thing that could come in handy is the named parameters, and it is something I like; one of those "little things." "Circle( Radius => 23, X => 28, Y => 14 );" will always be more readable than "Circle( 23, 28, 14 );" plus, there's the added benefit that 1) changes in parameter-ordering will not impact calls of this sort, & 2) the users of the functions/procedures can place the more pertinent parameters [to their task] more prominently [e.g. first].