From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,caabf5265fad78e5 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: anon@anon.org (anon) Subject: Re: unsigned type Reply-To: anon@anon.org (anon) References: <8b44f88e-b56d-4e2d-a0d4-6d4229ce695c@g1g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 2.0 Message-ID: <8E82m.407788$4m1.87083@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:31:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.65.6.97 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1246303876 12.65.6.97 (Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:31:16 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:31:16 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6725 Date: 2009-06-29T19:31:16+00:00 List-Id: From the APA, or any publishing company, even computer literature and etc. All references are at the bottom or back of the chapter/section and the main references are always at the back of the book. Even in GNAT for the specification files, the Ada statements are always at the top with the comments aka reference can be found below the statement. This suggest that TOP POST is the accepted way of the world and bottom posting is just plain backwards. The only exception that can be seen in GNAT is the PingPong program that is commented at the top of the "GNAT.Sockets" specification package. Searching for all of the routines passing all of that dead comments in that package it a wonder why people still use "GNAT.Sockets" instead of just using "GNAT.Sockets.Thin" all the time. I prefer parts of the APA and Adacore way instead of your style of bottom posting. More standardized In <8b44f88e-b56d-4e2d-a0d4-6d4229ce695c@g1g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, Ludovic Brenta writes: >Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote on comp.lang.ada: >> I usually refrain from responding to "anon", but this is so wrong that I >> have to... (Note: in French, "anon" is a young donkey; maybe that's >> where he got his name from...) > >That would explain his stubbornness at using defending top-posting, >too :) > >-- >Ludovic Brenta.