From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,8b756d9a0afb052a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!nntp.abs.net!news.abs.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Quick question about Ada code formatting. References: <43F7915B.3090000@obry.net> <43F83D46.2090200@obry.net> <43F84890.7010900@obry.net> <43f871d8$0$491$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <43F872C4.50505@obry.net> <43f97b00$0$4386$626a54ce@news.free.fr> From: Stephen Leake Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8OxM6dFC2Bpbcg5MqtMrNrtpnxg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:30:23 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.159.65.1 X-Complaints-To: abuse@toad.net X-Trace: news.abs.net 1140647431 66.159.65.1 (Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:30:31 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:30:31 EST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3077 Date: 2006-02-22T17:30:23-05:00 List-Id: Lionel Draghi 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. -- -- Stephe