From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: Understanding Booleans
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:39:07 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2001-11-22T10:39:07+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn9vplaj.v0.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5ee5b646.0111212023.17ab963d@posting.google.com
On 21 Nov 2001 20:23:34 -0800, Robert Dewar wrote:
> Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote in message news:<3BFBDF14.4B83708B@boeing.com>...
>> Preben Randhol wrote:
>> >
>> > if Get_Active (Object) = True then
>>
>> Am I the only one who finds this objectionable? It ends
>> up meaning the
>> same thing as
>>
>> if Get_Active (Object) then
>
>
> Absolute rules of style are the hobgoblins ... OK you know
> the quote. But it really is appropriate here.
>
> Write whatever is clearer to the reader, and do not think
> you can avoid the obligation of figuring out what is clearer by having
> absolute rules.
>
> if At_End_Of_File = True then
A statement like above will be optimised by the compiler to say :
if At_End_Of_File then
or will the compiler check if True = True then / if False = True then
Preben
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2001-11-21 4:35 Gtkada-Prob Lars Heppler
2001-11-21 9:37 ` Gtkada-Prob Adrian Knoth
2001-11-21 18:52 ` Gtkada-Prob Preben Randhol
2001-11-21 9:38 ` Gtkada-Prob Preben Randhol
2001-11-21 10:02 ` Gtkada-Prob Count Zero
2001-11-21 17:06 ` Understanding Booleans Jeffrey Carter
2001-11-21 17:19 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2001-11-21 17:29 ` Preben Randhol
2001-11-21 20:05 ` Stephen Leake
2001-11-21 21:33 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-22 4:23 ` Robert Dewar
2001-11-22 10:39 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
2001-11-22 15:51 ` Rod Chapman
2001-11-23 3:51 ` Robert Dewar
2001-11-24 20:09 ` Richard Riehle
2001-11-25 9:08 ` Pascal Obry
2001-11-25 15:06 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-27 9:46 ` AG
2001-11-25 21:44 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-11-21 10:19 ` Gtkada-Prob Florian Weimer
2001-11-21 10:36 ` Gtkada-Prob Preben Randhol
2001-11-21 10:39 ` Gtkada-Prob Count Zero
2001-11-21 10:50 ` Gtkada-Prob Preben Randhol
2001-11-21 10:57 ` Gtkada-Prob Lars Heppler
2001-11-21 11:53 ` Gtkada-Prob Preben Randhol
2001-11-21 12:24 ` Gtkada-Prob Florian Weimer
2001-11-21 12:57 ` Gtkada-Prob Preben Randhol
2001-11-21 17:33 ` Gtkada-Prob Adrian Knoth
2001-11-22 10:32 ` Gtkada-Prob Preben Randhol
2001-11-22 16:36 ` Gtkada-Prob Adrian Knoth
2001-11-22 21:13 ` Gtkada-Prob Jeffrey Carter
2001-11-23 10:17 ` Gtkada-Prob Preben Randhol
2001-11-26 6:47 ` Use of use, was Gtkada-Prob Anders Wirzenius
2001-11-26 9:25 ` Preben Randhol
2001-11-27 6:28 ` Anders Wirzenius
2001-11-27 14:06 ` Stephen Leake
2001-11-23 17:26 ` Gtkada-Prob Arnaud Charlet
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