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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Suggestion for Ada 200x - Interface inheritance
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 12:17:24 +0000 (UTC)
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Craig Carey wrote:
>    "/" [constant 'in' mode parameter for the procedure or generic],
>    "|" [in out], and
>    "\" [out].
> 
> Two examples of calling a procedure:
> 
>    Text_IO.Get_Line (/File, \Item, \Last);
> 
>    Text_IO.Get_Line (/File, \Item => Item, \Last => Last);

IMHO awful. We are saying Ada is more readable because it uses less
whitespaces so why should we now start adding more whitespaces which
makes the code less readable?

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