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From: dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough)
Subject: Re: Gnat pretty printing
Date: 1998/12/17
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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