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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f92fbb4a0420dd57 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: adaworks@netcom.com (AdaWorks) Subject: Re: some questions re. Ada/GNAT from a C++/GCC user Date: 1996/03/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 145198825 sender: adaworks@netcom18.netcom.com references: <4jjul6$637@ra.nrl.navy.mil> organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-03-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff (bobduff@world.std.com) wrote: : You miss the point. C++ doesn't require "{" and "}" in this case -- the : case we're talking about is where no visual cues are necessary. I can : understand that one might like "begin" better than "{", but this is a : case where C++ requires nothing at all, and Ada requires "declare", : "begin", and "end", for no good reason. Surely you inadvertantly omitted your smiley for the phrase, "for no good reason." Richard Riehle adaworks@netcom.com -- richard@adaworks.com AdaWorks Software Engineering Suite 27 2555 Park Boulevard Palo Alto, CA 94306 (415) 328-1815 FAX 328-1112