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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Inheritance and Polymorphism in Ada !!
Date: 1999/10/18
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Date: 1999-10-18T00:00:00+00:00
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"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.