From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2a687662f09731bb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:26:11 -0600 From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Don't use the "use" clause References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:26:12 -0600 NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.169.16.9 X-Trace: sv3-CHvraEEHl5ISIZnD3baID8ykYdVVSjM/M1m0duiMjPwqpqGmKVgaO5S+ROpJyHWs5QoA3Ie4shZC7cB!Cp3u8xMZ9nn52lVDRKMoqWRSoFJE7gT5KkaArM4HA4Fkvv70J8j2jf3ilK2bHEe43pu/QbREsl/S!pc4QOjQV46gD X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6563 Date: 2005-11-23T13:26:12-06:00 List-Id: > ... and clutter does have a cost. I wonder what happens if you fit the identifier or word frequencies vs lengths in an Ada source to Zipf's law (or a variant, eg http://www.ling.lu.se/persons/Joost/Texts/studling.pdf) It would seem likely that matching human language statistics would be "good". Anyone tried this?