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From: Pascal Obry
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Subject: Re: Understanding Booleans
Date: 25 Nov 2001 10:08:19 +0100
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Richard Riehle writes:
> Dr. Dewar has often noted the importance of readability over writeability.
Not only Robert Dewar but also a good part of the Ada community :)
> If the first form is more readable to more people, and produces no additional
> overhead in the excecutable, I think it is perfectly acceptable.
It is acceptable, but I find hard to beleive that the first version (= True) is
more readable.
Pascal.
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