Re: New Software Forum

[kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline)]

Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org> wrote in message news:<slrnaoeprn.vb.randhol+news@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>...
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:41:43 +0200, Ingo Marks wrote:
> > Ingo Marks wrote:
> > 
> > or even this way :-)
> >  
> > Put_Line ("Iteration" & Num &
> >           " Result:"  & Result &
> >           " Time:"    & Elapsed_Time);
> 
> Well now we are borderlining the poor readability. In the previous
> version I could at least know that Elapsed_Time was a Duration here it
> can be anything. This is one of the great features of Ada that it is so
> self-documenting.

This version is easier to read and easier to maintain.  I don't need to
know the type of Elapsed_Time to understand this statement, and the
compiler already knows the type and shouldn't need to be told again.
Repeating the type here reduces readability and makes the code more
sensitive to a change in the type of Elapsed_Time.