Re: Running a preprocessor from GPS?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message 
news:lywpxjxxza.fsf@pushface.org...
> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
>
>>     (4) Real Ada Programmers don't use Ada 2012 conditional expressions
>> (unless they need the expression to be static).
>
> Why not, specially?
>
> I haven't used them often, but don't see the problem with
>
>      return Tick * Time_Base ((if System.FreeRTOS.Tasks.In_ISR
>                                then xTaskGetTickCountFromISR
>                                else xTaskGetTickCount));

Verbosity, for one. Second, the hiding of the control structure. In general, 
it's better to write the control structure out in a subprogram body, it's a 
lot more readable.

Note that I'm not (quite) a real Ada programmer by my somewhat 
tongue-in-cheek definition -- I'll write whatever is easiest for local code 
(so long as it's implemented in Janus/Ada, so that rules out conditional 
expressions for the moment).

Of course, the development roadmap for Janus/Ada will lead one to using a 
lot of conditional expressions, as it ought to be able to inline expression 
functions (Janus/Ada currently has no inlining). That will encourage code to 
be written using expression functions, and of course the "body" of an 
expression function is an expression, thus only conditional expressions can 
be used. So I'll probably end up getting farther from my ideal based on 
that.

                                       Randy.