From: Martin <martin@thedowies.com>
Subject: Re: Ada2012 : Expression functions and extended return statements
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 09:10:58 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2012-01-07T09:10:58-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e99c0030-ea9a-4bee-a89d-518982ef5870@m4g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2ehvb7le8.fsf@pushface.org
On Jan 7, 12:22 pm, Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> wrote:
> Martin <mar...@thedowies.com> writes:
> > On Jan 7, 1:50 am, "Randy Brukardt" <ra...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> >> "Martin" <mar...@thedowies.com> wrote in message
>
> >>news:a40448ab-4508-4861-99ae-1a7b63d59f69@ck5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com...
> >> On Jan 6, 3:11 pm, "J-P. Rosen" <ro...@adalog.fr> wrote:
>
> >> >[snip]
> >> >> In Ada, we favour the reader over the writer, don't we?
>
> >> >Not necessarily, with the advent of expression functions!! ;-)
>
> >> Huh? An expression function is just a shorthand for writing a simple
> >> function; it argubly easier to read because it has less noise. "begin" "end"
> >> "return" don't add much information here, and you still can add the
> >> whitespace if you think it helps readability.
>
> >> Randy.
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_frm/thread/4bb123...
>
> It's always been possible to write Ada that won't get past a code review!
True, but I've never seen anything like this before...
...I did see one chap trying to write COBOL in Ada! All variables in a
"Data Division" - no matter what the required scope was. Testament to
Ada was that his code work! Hideously inefficient, but working!!
-- Martin
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2012-01-06 8:45 Ada2012 : Expression functions and extended return statements Martin
2012-01-06 9:45 ` stefan-lucks
2012-01-06 10:02 ` Martin
2012-01-06 11:23 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-01-06 11:37 ` Martin
2012-01-06 13:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-01-06 14:45 ` Martin Dowie
2012-01-06 15:07 ` Martin
2012-01-06 16:40 ` Robert A Duff
2012-01-06 17:04 ` Martin Dowie
2012-01-19 7:47 ` David Thompson
2012-01-06 17:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-01-07 1:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-01-07 9:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-01-06 16:45 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-01-06 16:36 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-01-07 14:54 ` stefan-lucks
2012-01-07 15:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-01-08 9:41 ` stefan-lucks
2012-01-09 6:16 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-01-06 15:11 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-01-06 15:26 ` Martin
2012-01-07 1:50 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-01-07 10:12 ` Martin
2012-01-07 12:22 ` Simon Wright
2012-01-07 17:10 ` Martin [this message]
2012-01-09 6:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-01-09 7:57 ` Martin Dowie
2012-01-31 23:34 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-01-06 16:33 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-01-06 16:38 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-01-06 22:12 ` Robert A Duff
2012-01-31 23:20 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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