Re: basic ada question

["Steve" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net>]

"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message 
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> Adrian Knoth wrote:
>
>> It is a named parameter. You can use it to rearrange the order
>> of your parameters when calling a function/procedure.
>
> It's more about clarity than order. Something like
>
> Insert (Into => Name_List, Item => Current.Name);
>
> is usually clearer than
>
> Insert (Name_List, Current.Name);
>

A few years ago I translated a bunch of Pascal source code to Ada using a 
tool I obtained through this newsgroup.  I tweaked the sources of the 
translator to qualify all of the names in the procedure and function calls 
in the generated Ada code.  In most cases it made the code more readable 
than the original Pascal sources.  It also identified a number of bugs.

Steve
(The Duck)

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