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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:23:26 +0200
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Steve wrote:

>"Vinzent Hoefler" <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com> wrote in message
>news:bcbu9i$hgu5j$1@ID-175126.news.dfncis.de...
>[snip]
>>
>Yeah, but after actually spending a lot of time reading code, I've never=
 had
>a problem distinguishing '=3D' from '+=3D',

Well, that's probably easier. :)

>but I have had problems
>distinguishing:
>
>shiftTally(shift)(dayOfWeek(month).tallyIndex)
> .sortTally(s).nbRejects :=3D
>shiftTally(shift)(dayOfWeekmonth).tallyIndex).sortTally(s).nbRejects + =
1;
>
>from
>
>shiftTally(shift)(dayOfWeek(month).tallyIndex)
> .sortTally(s).nbRejects :=3D
>shiftTally(shift)(dayOfWeekmonth).tallyIndex).sortTally(t).nbRejects + =
1;
>
>You might argue that the code was not written well.  I don't know about =
you
>but I don't generally re-write blocks of code I'm maintaining just =
because
>it doesn't look nice.

I do. :-) I don't want the one who might come after me, going through
the same shit again.

>>And you probably heard about: Ada is for ease of reading, not writing.
>
>In my opinion the benefit of +=3D has nothing to do with efficiency or =
ease in
>writing.  It's all about readability.

In *some* cases it might be so. In *most* cases it won't. And for your
example: I don't see, why

|shiftTally(shift)(dayOfWeek(month).tallyIndex)
| .sortTally(s).nbRejects +=3D 1;

should be easier to distinguish from

>shiftTally(shift)(dayOfWeek(month).tallyIndex)
> .sortTally(s).nbRejects :=3D 1;

In either case you have to look twice anyway.


Vinzent.

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