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Subject: Re: A case where Ada defaults to unsafe?
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In article <3C360E76.3070308@mail.com>, Hyman Rosen says...
>Forget that any other programming languages exist, for the moment.
>
>If I use "and" and I'm wrong in assuming that the order doesn't matter,
>then I have introduced a subtle bug. If I'm right, then I haven't gained
>anything. 

I can't possibly be reading this right. It seems you are trying to argue that
all of the following are true:

o  communative "and" has no practical benifits (a debatable point, but one which
we have answered multiple times),
o  documenting the fact that you shouldn't move the components of a particular
condition around is of no benifit.
o  "and then" somehow saves you when you get the order of conditions backwards.


>So why not always use "and then"?

There are some who do that. I think the documentation issue alone is worth not
doing things that way though.

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