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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Future with Ada
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"Georg Bauhaus" <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message
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> Marin David Condic <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote:
> :
> : Why not for "if" statements
>
> Hmm, are you suggesting that you feel comfortable with if
> statements that span more than say 12 lines and/or are nested
> to some unspeakable level of say 3 or more? :-)
>

Why, "yes". What's your point? :-) Sometimes a big case or if is a perfectly
good way of reflecting what's going on. (Think of lots of "when" or "elsif"
parts, for example.) Things should be made as simple as possible, but no
simpler.

MDC
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