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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Quick question about Ada code formatting.
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:27:25 +0000
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Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:

> I just do not agree, it helps a lot browsing and looking for a
> specific routine in a source file. It is not a really comment
> certainly not something you can compare with "Add 1 to X" ! It is a
> kind of separator that clearly stand out. BTW, this is the GNAT
> style, a style that I use for AWS... But again this is just one
> style.

Both GLIDE and GPS make it easy to find things in source files --
types, subprograms, tasks, protected types, packages ...