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Subject: Re: Quick question about Ada code formatting.
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Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:

> Georg Bauhaus a �crit :
>
>> They can indicate a major block. For example in Matt's AI 302
>> implementation, there are blank lines between many executable
>> statements. There are two blank lines between most, if not all,
>> subprograms.
>
> Between subprograms I prefer the "GNAT style" header box:
>
>   ----------------------
>   -- Process_Whatever --
>   ----------------------
>
>   procedure Process_Whatever is
>   ...
>
> Far clearer than 2 blank lines IMHO.

Yuck - a waste of valuable screen space. That's what syntax
colorization is for, along with navigation keys (page forward goes to
next subprogram).

One of these days, I'll add an option to gnatstub to take those out.

Just my style, of course :).

-- 
-- Stephe