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From: kcline@optelnow.net (Kevin Cline)
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Subject: Re: code partitioning (was: Future with Ada)
Date: 13 Mar 2002 07:21:16 -0800
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Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<DPweFozQbILl@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
> In article <mailman.1015999862.11331.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, Christoph Grein <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com> writes:
> >> From: Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com>
> >>    case Animal is
>       snip
> >>    end case (Animal);   -- yet another way of
> >>                         -- naming a case statement
> > 
> > Nonono
> > 
> > case [expression] is
> >   ...
> > end case;
> > 
> > So how about
> > 
> > case Some*weird*and/long+expression is
> >   ...
> > end case Some*weird*and/long+expression;
> 
> I prefer:
> 
> 	case Some*weird*and/long+expression is
> 	  ...
> 	end case;	-- Some*weird*and/long+expression
> 
> since it requires no vendor action and I have resigned myself to
> the fact that successful programming can never be entirely devoid
> of self-discipline.
> 
> I have found that so long as _every_ end case has such a comment,
> I am unlikely to get them interchanged.

I prefer

    meaningful_name := some * weird * and / long + expression;
    case meaningful_name is
    end case; -- meaningful_name

Introducing local variables can improve readability.