From: dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough)
Subject: Re: Gnat pretty printing
Date: 1998/12/17
Date: 1998-12-17T01:22:12+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dale-1712981223240001@dale.bu.cs.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 758k9g$j6l$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
Mr dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> > procedure Pop
> > ( Item : out Element_Type
> > ; List : in out List_Type
> > ; Flag : in Boolean
> > ) ;
> >
>
> That is a style which had not occurred to me. I guess it has the
> advantage that each parameter starts in the same column, but it really
> disturbs my eye that the terminating semicolon isn't after the thing it
> terminates.
They are not terminating semicolons (the last one in the list -doesn't-
have one) - they are separating semicolons. It is more consistent, but
it still doesn't follow that it is easy to read. I suspect that our use
of semicolons in natural languages makes it use at the start of a line
always seem a bit suspect.
Dale
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-09 0:00 Gnat pretty printing Matt Tyler
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-09 0:00 ` David C. Hoos
1998-12-10 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1998-12-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-12 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-12-14 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-15 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-16 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-16 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-12-18 0:00 ` dewar
1998-12-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-17 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough [this message]
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-19 0:00 ` Lieven Marchand
1998-12-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-12-13 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-11 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-12-11 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1998-12-11 0:00 ` Bob Collins
1998-12-11 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-12-11 0:00 ` Stephane Barbey
1998-12-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-21 0:00 ` BARDIN Marc
1998-12-09 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Steve O'Neill
1998-12-10 0:00 ` okellogg
1998-12-11 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-12-09 0:00 ` David C. Hoos
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-12-09 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Tom Moran
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