From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Type Transcriptions
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 12:42:43 -0700
Date: 2014-04-21T12:42:43-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lj3sbj$3tv$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <WMd5v.117886$vS2.93071@fx32.iad>
On 04/21/2014 11:51 AM, Shark8 wrote:
>
> I suppose the better way to phrase it is:
> "Is it better to strictly stick to the spec, letting generic instantiation take
> care of these 'extra-typal' parameters, *OR* doing things the natural Ada way,
> and worrying about 'fixing-up' things in, say, 'Input and 'Output operations."
My vote is for the Ada way, as long as the functionality is correct. Making it
clear, easy to read and understand, and correct are the important things.
--
Jeff Carter
"I like it when the support group complains that they have
insufficient data on mean time to repair bugs in Ada software."
Robert I. Eachus
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-21 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-21 7:21 Type Transcriptions Shark8
2014-04-21 16:54 ` Brad Moore
2014-04-21 18:11 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-21 18:51 ` Shark8
2014-04-21 19:42 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2014-04-22 6:06 ` Shark8
2014-04-21 20:33 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-04-21 22:46 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-04-22 8:57 ` Shark8
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