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Subject: Re: Elaboration order handling (Was: Bug in 'gnatmake')
From: AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de>
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>         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 1=
00 lines to declare things are needed which could not be reformulated in so=
me other way.

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

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

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