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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Case dependence and coding standards
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 15:36:39 +0000 (UTC)
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Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Here is where I'd like to see an argument, not a strong emphasis.

Cannot give you anything other than I find it easier to get an overview
of a function if it is lightly formated as I showed in my example. Other
may find that non formated is better.

>       north: Positive range 0 .. 90;  -- stops at north pole
>       west: Positive range 0 .. 360; -- around the earth
>       depth: Integer range -20_000 .. 0; -- below the sea

This is absolutly not nice. You should at least have a space after the
variable before the :. I would also want to format the comments out to
the side as they clutter the code. I don't like to use a lot of comments
at the end of the line.

         north : Positive range 0 .. 90;     -- stops at north pole
         west : Positive range 0 .. 360;     -- around the earth
         depth : Integer range -20_000 .. 0; -- below the sea


> This could be formatted to look nicely ordered like
> 
>       north : Positive range       0 .. 90;   -- stops at north pole
>       west  : Positive range       0 .. 360;  -- around the earth
>       depth : Integer  range -20_000 .. 0;    -- below the sea

I would have done:

       north : Positive range 0 .. 90;          -- stops at north pole
       west  : Positive range 0 .. 360;         -- around the earth
       depth : Integer  range -20_000 .. 0;     -- below the sea

if I wanted to format this.

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