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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 10:51:26 +0000 (UTC)
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domin wrote:
> Gautier Write-only wrote:
> 
>> Hey cool! I would add the possibility of nesting several of
>> such comments, or not, and why not also the { } and (* *) of Pascal.
>> A pragma would allow ending a { by a *) or */, or not, and ignoring
>> or not the rest of a line inside a "/*" after a -- (even if it has a */).
>> Did you understand ? I mean, it's simple.
> 
> The idea is simple to understand, but using it will be complicated.
> When I see "--" I know it's a comment, without thinking of any
> pragmas, comment ending, nesting etc.
> I'm using Ada because It's clear & well defined, not because it's handy.
> 
>> And what about including chuncks of code - it would be so cool to
>> just insert "c:\...\mytools.inc" at some place instead of these packages.
> 
> Unclear like in C. 
> 
>> Another idea: make some names implicitly type. E.g. I, J5, InJm
>> and so on are always integers, so why declare them ?
> 
> In some of my code I used first letter to indicate the type
> something like Hungarian notation with T. e.g.
> i - integers, names like iCount, iMoney etc
> s - string
> b - boolean
> f - float
> It gives the code great clearance, but it would be hard to deal this way
> with self-defined types.

I think Gautier was ironical when he wrote the above :-)

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Preben Randhol                    http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/