Re: Thought this was funny

[Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>]

Xenos wrote:

>Reviewing some old code we are converting from Ada 83 to 95, I came across
>this:
>
>case <boolean expression> is
>  when true =>
>       <do something>
>
>  when false =>
>       <do something else>
>
>end case;

Well, perhaps the programmer expected that the code might change to
fuzzy booleans later... :)

I've seen worse things:

|if <boolean expression> = True then
|   Boolean_Variable := True;
|else
|   Boolean_Variable := False;
|end if;

(Well, the original was written in Pascal, but that doesn't matter for
the demonstration, I guess)...

Can someone here see any reason, why someone should not simply write

|Boolean_Variable := <boolean expression>;

instead?

The "<boolean expression> = True" construct alone... *sigh*


Vinzent.