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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Thought this was funny
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:36:04 +0200
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Xenos wrote:

>Reviewing some old code we are converting from Ada 83 to 95, I came =
across
>this:
>
>case <boolean expression> is
>  when true =3D>
>       <do something>
>
>  when false =3D>
>       <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> =3D True then
|   Boolean_Variable :=3D True;
|else
|   Boolean_Variable :=3D 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 :=3D <boolean expression>;

instead?

The "<boolean expression> =3D True" construct alone... *sigh*


Vinzent.