Re: code partitioning (was: Future with Ada)

[Christoph Grein <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com>]

> I prefer
> 
>     meaningful_name := some * weird * and / long + expression;
>     case meaningful_name is
>     end case; -- meaningful_name
> 
> Introducing local variables can improve readability.

This is not the point. Of course this is sensible. My proper point against this proposal is:

Since a case statement has an expression syntactically, the expression would 
have to be repeated at the end

case expression is
  ..
end case expression;

and this is against the spirit of repeating only a short identifier (the 
defining_designator etc.) at the end.

Thus the proper way would be a {case_}statement_identifier:

[{case_}statement_identifier:]
case expression is
  ...
end case [{case_}identifier];

[The curly braces stand here for what is printed in italics in the RM.]

This is the only form I would like to see as a future syntax enhancement. We 
already have this for loops and blocks, so why not for ifs and cases (and 
selects).

We do not need weird new syntax rules.