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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fce663eaf40b52f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Manifesto against Vector Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 10:31:53 +0200 Message-ID: References: <7v9k901htdtm86kg9umqhptirt7vmjcr3m@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: http://news.individual.net/abuse.html X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de B4dk+FBM9uIENIv9qGvibQrGDp2ZJlKnUSAePSi7XlSdWKDgE= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:351 Date: 2004-05-07T10:31:53+02:00 List-Id: On Thu, 6 May 2004 14:48:43 +0000 (UTC), Georg Bauhaus wrote: >Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > >: On the contrary "with" has no other sense than being just a >: hint to the compiler/linker. > >It is also a hint to me, the reader! I answered that. >And if there is redundancy >in explicitness, this does help analysing, understanding, and >debugging programs, doesn't it? Not at all. In most cases it is just an importunate noise. >In particular if the program text >is not correct. How could that help, keeping in mind, that use-haters are pushing for using full names everywhere? -- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de