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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-07 08:08:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-han1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Future with Ada Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:08:43 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <3C7B0B13.3080003@worldnet.att.net> <3C7D1C89.2000803@home.com> <3C7E7CAD.7070504@mail.com> <3C7FB9D2.D9C6E055@boeing.com> <3C81DF1F.9000503@mail.com> <3C83A112.6080302@mail.com> <3C84223C.A356F466@adaworks.com> <3C853A04.34826F39@despammed.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1015517323 3772 134.91.4.34 (7 Mar 2002 16:08:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:08:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20905 Date: 2002-03-07T16:08:43+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: : I suppose it would help when you have really long chunks of code inside the : ifs. If `end if something' will invite to have long chunks of code inside the ifs, the idea should be banned. Sometimes Structured Programming is really convincing. Ada is good at stepwise refinement _not_ using ifs, but different language facilities. - georg