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,a00006d3c4735d70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-03-01 03:02:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-atanamir.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: left-to-right (was In-Out Parameters for functions) Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 12:12:41 +0100 Message-ID: References: <3c0u3054mganvifajj3g6jealh07qoi1h7@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-atanamir.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.116) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1078138958 53309904 I 212.79.194.116 ([77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5969 Date: 2004-03-01T12:12:41+01:00 List-Id: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:29:54 +0300 (MSK), "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" wrote: >Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > >> Randy Brukardt gave one example. However I would like to stress that >> optimization and implementation freedom is only one, though important >> argument. Software design practice is no less important. Fixing order >> not imposed by the semantics, and thus an arbitrary order, is that >> sort of premature optimization Knuth wrote about. My concern is that >> fixing an arbitrary order would bless bad software design in favor of >> getting results now. > >As this concern of yours is somehow imprecise and vague, it will probably >be hated by those software sergeants (and I think we have at least one here), >who need definite rules for thinking and conclusive (or compelling) arguments >always and everywhere. If somebody does not like vagueness of philosophy, we could try to turn to rigour of mathematics. However, you know what will be said then! (:-)) -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de