From: "Alejandro R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com>
Subject: Re: "functional" programming in Ada
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 15:35:52 +0100
Date: 2018-03-06T15:35:52+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p7m908$rel$2@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p7m3uo$c05$1@gioia.aioe.org>
On 06/03/18 14:09, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 06/03/2018 12:34, Alejandro R. Mosteo wrote:
>> In a recent project I've started using in full if/case expressions and
>> expression functions... and I'm a bit scared at the amount of use I
>> have for them. I'm using these constantly.
>
> That is how wrong ideas become most popular ones.
Do you find something inherently wrong, or is this particular
implementation you object to?
>> Pros: purely recursive functions are really fun to write. If/case
>> expressions, used sparingly, do help a lot in having constant
>> declarations in local scopes. I'm writing more code in declarative parts.
>>
>> Cons: the temptation of writing function bodies in the spec is too
>> big. At least I try to keep them in the private part, but I've found
>> myself trying to force an expression function just to avoid a package
>> body.
>>
>> Care to share your experiences?
>
> Better not to have any.
:-)
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2018-03-06 11:34 "functional" programming in Ada Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-03-06 13:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-06 14:35 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo [this message]
2018-03-06 15:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-06 16:00 ` Manuel Collado
2018-03-06 16:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-06 22:16 ` Manuel Collado
2018-03-07 8:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-07 4:46 ` Paul Rubin
2018-03-06 13:29 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-03-06 14:34 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-03-06 14:36 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-03-06 15:27 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-03-06 16:26 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-03-06 20:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-03-07 14:30 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-03-06 15:01 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-03-06 15:25 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-03-07 10:07 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-03-07 10:52 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-03-07 13:11 ` Pascal Obry
2018-03-07 13:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-07 16:13 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-03-12 0:13 ` Robert I. Eachus
2018-03-08 3:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-03-08 8:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-08 22:49 ` G. B.
2018-03-09 8:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-09 8:40 ` Simon Wright
2018-03-09 13:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-07 15:03 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-03-07 15:16 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-03-07 20:34 ` Robert A Duff
2018-03-07 22:47 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-03-08 0:26 ` Shark8
2018-03-08 0:45 ` Paul Rubin
2018-03-08 11:07 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-03-08 18:24 ` G. B.
2018-03-09 14:41 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
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