From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Ada2012 : Expression functions and extended return statements
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 19:50:55 -0600
Date: 2012-01-06T19:50:55-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je88e1$a8a$1@munin.nbi.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a40448ab-4508-4861-99ae-1a7b63d59f69@ck5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com
"Martin" <martin@thedowies.com> wrote in message
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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.
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2012-01-07 10:12 ` Martin
2012-01-07 12:22 ` Simon Wright
2012-01-07 17:10 ` Martin
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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