From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@no.sp.am.btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: Local vs global variables in ADA
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 07:04:51 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2002-11-06T07:04:51+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aqaeuj$g2i$1@helle.btinternet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: p0u9qa.4p3.ln@beastie.ix.netcom.com
"Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:p0u9qa.4p3.ln@beastie.ix.netcom.com...
> Using just a while loop, as in many languages, the above turns
into:
>
> (initial) preprocessing which may set flag
> while not flag
> other processing
> preprocessing which sets flag
> wend
AKA the "Read Ahead Principle" so beloved of Jackson Structured Programming
and COBOL-heads.
It wasn't that bad when the preprocessing bit was farmed off to a subpogram
and you wrote your programs using a decent JSP tool.
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2002-11-03 18:17 Local vs global variables in ADA Roger
2002-11-03 19:03 ` Per Sandbergs
2002-11-03 19:31 ` Eric Jacoboni
2002-11-04 1:47 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-11-04 13:27 ` Wes Groleau
2002-11-04 20:48 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-11-05 8:43 ` Fraser Wilson
2002-11-05 13:53 ` Charles H. Sampson
2002-11-06 4:59 ` R. Tim Coslet
2002-11-05 17:28 ` Stephen Leake
2002-11-05 17:38 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2002-11-05 19:57 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-11-06 9:11 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2002-11-05 20:26 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-11-05 23:14 ` Wes Groleau
2002-11-06 9:16 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2002-11-06 13:49 ` Wes Groleau
2002-11-05 22:37 ` Robert A Duff
2002-11-05 23:46 ` Larry Hazel
2002-11-06 2:19 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-11-06 13:45 ` Dan Nagle
2002-11-07 0:30 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-11-06 2:15 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-11-06 7:04 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2002-11-06 14:40 ` john mann
2002-11-07 0:25 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-11-07 14:58 ` Robert A Duff
2002-11-07 15:38 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2002-11-08 1:43 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-11-06 7:18 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-11-06 15:40 ` Rod Chapman
2002-11-06 17:34 ` Stephen Leake
2002-11-10 1:36 ` loop statements, was " David Thompson
2002-11-05 19:54 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-11-04 13:47 ` Martin Dowie
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2002-11-05 6:42 Grein, Christoph
2002-11-05 15:59 ` Martin Dowie
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