Re: Elaboration order handling (Was: Bug in 'gnatmake')

[AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de>]

>         X, Y : T;
>         Init (X, Y);
>         ... -- 100 lines
>     begin
>
> versus:
>
>         X, Y : T;
>         ... -- 100 lines
>     begin
>         Init (X, Y); -- far away from X and Y

I'm quite astonished about this kind of discussion... I would say a declare block like this is very very bad style. I cannot imagine some code where 100 lines to declare things are needed which could not be reformulated in some other way.

You can always come up with some fancy code to demonstrate some obscure case which would never go thru in real life - I'd reject such a code in an inspection.

And I like null statements and (null record); and IIRC steelman or some other ...man said empty parentheses and empty blocks look very much like something was forgotten, so either dont write them (subprograms without params) or put null inside as an indication there actually is nothing. (Of course you can still forget something.)

Ada is wordy (eloquent, talkative, garrulous) by deliberation...