Re: Understanding Booleans

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> writes:

> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 17:06:28 GMT, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Yes I know, but for some reason I like to write it like above instead. Hmm.

One idea is to make the function name a "predicate", like Is_Active,
instead of Get_Active. That makes:

if Is_Active (Object) then

more readable.

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-- Stephe