From: "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ada syntax questions
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 18:38:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rripek$tv1$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5fdbde31$0$6455$426a74cc@news.free.fr>
Den 2020-12-17 kl. 23:39, skrev DrPi:
> Hi,
>
> Ada claims to have a better syntax than other languages.
> I'm fine with with, but...
...
>
> 2) In Ada, a function without arguments is called without any parentheses.
> In the code "status := NewStatus;", you can't tell if NewStatus is a
> function or a variable.
As others have stated, why do you care?
I often mock up a function with a constant,
add a pragma compile_time_warning/error ("fix implementation later")
and only later write the body of the function. And that is the only code
change - I don't need to add an useless empty pair of () just because it
is a function to all the callers
> For my knowledge, are there good reasons for these syntaxes ?
Yes
--
Björn
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-17 22:39 Ada syntax questions DrPi
2020-12-17 23:18 ` Gabriele Galeotti
2020-12-18 8:26 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2020-12-18 9:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-12-18 16:55 ` Mart van de Wege
2020-12-18 17:38 ` Björn Lundin [this message]
2020-12-18 19:35 ` Niklas Holsti
2020-12-20 21:59 ` Keith Thompson
2020-12-22 1:04 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-12-22 8:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-12-23 1:23 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-12-23 8:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-12-24 4:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-12-24 9:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-12-22 13:48 ` AdaMagica
2020-12-20 21:59 ` Keith Thompson
2020-12-21 8:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-12-18 23:09 ` Stephen Leake
2020-12-19 11:50 ` DrPi
2020-12-19 12:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-12-19 17:13 ` Andreas ZEURCHER
2020-12-19 17:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-12-19 18:40 ` Andreas ZEURCHER
2020-12-19 19:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-12-19 22:11 ` Andreas ZEURCHER
2020-12-20 8:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-12-20 16:53 ` Andreas ZEURCHER
2020-12-22 0:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-12-22 2:39 ` Andreas ZEURCHER
2020-12-22 10:05 ` Stéphane Rivière
2020-12-25 9:34 ` G.B.
2020-12-19 17:01 ` AdaMagica
2020-12-19 21:51 ` Stephen Leake
2020-12-19 22:20 ` Andreas ZEURCHER
2020-12-20 14:10 ` DrPi
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