From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Operators -> unit analysis
Date: 2000/01/08
Date: 2000-01-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccaemgh6uw.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 856hjt$v1i$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert, please be careful with your quotes. I didn't say the "Oh
dear..." -- Matt did.
- Bob
Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> In article <38764aac_2@news1.prserv.net>,
> "Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@banet.net> wrote:
> > In article <wccln626ily.fsf@world.std.com> , Robert A Duff
> > <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
> >
> > Oh dear, I'll probably get horribly flamed for saying so, but
> I disagree
> > with the Ada(83) decision to require that "and" and "or"
> operators
> > appearing within the same statement also require parenthesis.
>
>
> Can you really argue that depending on this makes things easier
> to read, I don't think so! And it is quite error prone. It is
> all too easy to write
>
> if asdfasdf > oiuyoiuyoiuy or asdfadsfadsf < oiuoiuyoiuyoiuy
> and not junk
>
> and be confused by the indentation. To me this was one of the
> sound decisions in Ada. The cost to the writer, extra parens.
> The benefit to the writer, avoiding bugs like the above. The
> benefit to the reader is clear.
- Bob
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Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-23 0:00 Ada Brijesh
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada reason67
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Richard D Riehle
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Robert A Duff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Richard D Riehle
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Operators -> unit analysis Charles Hixson
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2000-01-10 0:00 ` Operator precedence--was " Howard W. LUDWIG
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Terry Sikes
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Terry Sikes
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-01-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-01-10 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Florian Weimer
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Brian Rogoff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Robert A Duff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Ada Al Christians
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Jon Jensen
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Roger Racine
1999-12-28 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
1999-12-31 0:00 ` Ada Richard D Riehle
2000-01-02 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-02 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-02 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Ted Dennison
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Roger Racine
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Ada Charles Hixson
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ada Magnus Alexandersson
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Magnus Alexandersson
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ada Magnus Alexandersson
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada tmoran
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Ada Greg Martin
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2000-01-08 0:00 Operators -> Unit Analysis mfeldman
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