Re: Quick question about Ada code formatting.

[Stephen Leake <stephe_on_the_web@toadmail.com>]

Lionel Draghi <Lionel.nospam.Draghi@Ada-France.org> writes:

> I don't think that vi or such are still used enough to justify
> such a "waste of valuable screen space".

I would never presume to make that statement. I have no way of
surveying "the community at large" to find out what IDE's/editors are
being used.

> I think most people are using emacs/gps/etc., have no problem in code
> navigation.

On _my_ projects, developers are required to use tools that
significantly improve productivity. But on other projects, I still run
into people using vi. Just last month, one guy had the compiler on one
machine, and an editor on another, and used scp to copy between them.
Absolutely amazing! So I showed him how to use X windows to run
Eclipse on the same machine as the compiler (yes, I recommend Eclipse
to newbies now, over Emacs; it does seem like a better base). I should
have demanded 10% of his next raise, assuming he gets a raise based on
productivity :).

> Anyway, there are several way to put emphasis on operations without
> wasting screen space, and without duplicating the procedure name in
> the comment, for example:
>
> procedure Process_Whatever is
> -- ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> or
>
> -- ----------------------------------------------------------
> procedure Process_Whatever is
>
> etc.
>
> And no, this is not "my taste", but an arguable scientific point
> :-)

Hmm. I'm still missing something. You have a line full of hyphens.
I think that wastes screen space.

What information do those hyphens add over the indentation and the
keyword 'procedure'?

To ask it another way: are there procedures (or functions) that are
_not_ marked in this way? If so, that would be additional information
(although I don't know what that information is). If not, it's just
noise. 

Unless that smiley means it _is_ still just personal taste.

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-- Stephe