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From: Martin <martin@thedowies.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada2012 : Expression functions and extended return statements
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On Jan 7, 12:22=A0pm, Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> wrote:
> Martin <mar...@thedowies.com> writes:
> > On Jan 7, 1:50=A0am, "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.
>
> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Randy.
>
> >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