From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Inheritance and Polymorphism in Ada !!
Date: 1999/10/18
Date: 1999-10-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccwvsk1ul4.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38077b65_1@news1.prserv.net
"Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org> writes:
> In article <7u7o36$tv8$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net> , Richard D Riehle
> <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> > Alternatively, the declare block could (many say _should_) be promoted to a
> > subprogram call.
>
> Whoever says "should" is wrong.
Whoever says "wrong" about matters that are clearly matters of opinion,
such as this stylistic issue, is wrong. ;-) How about, "I disagree
with..." or "It's a bad idea to ..." or "You'll be sorry if..."? I
would understand you better if you reserved "wrong" to point out factual
mistakes.
Anyway, I agree that you shouldn't always turn block statements into
procedures.
My main complaint about block statements is that they're verbose: they
introduce three extra lines of code which don't impart any useful
information to the reader of the code. Why can't I just declare a local
variable in any statement list? And they introduce an extra (bogus)
level of indentation.
- Bob
--
Change robert to bob to get my real email address. Sorry.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-15 0:00 Inheritance and Polymorphism in Ada !! Chango Cho
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Stephane Barbey
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Paul Duquennoy
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-15 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-10-15 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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