Re: Ada Recursion with strings

[Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Adam Beneschan a �crit :
> Yep, the advantage of that is that if the people who design the
> Internet communication protocols suddenly decide that IP addresses are
> going to use 9-bit bytes, all you have to do is change one constant,
> rather than try to find all the 8's in your code and change them,
> which is more error-prone.
> 
Reminds me of an old advice explaining why named constants were better 
than numerical values. They took the example of Pi, saying it would make 
  maintenance easier "should the value of Pi change" :-)

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