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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada 200X
Date: 2 Jun 2003 10:07:52 -0500
Date: 2003-06-02T10:07:52-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fr+GJmXimahI@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1054565992.652258@master.nyc.kbcfp.com

In article <1054565992.652258@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
> Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
>> Yes, but who is the ancestor? You always have to look for that.
> 
> That's fine. I'm given to understand that Ada is meant to be
> for the convenience of the reader, not the writer. It may be
> more work for you to look up the ancestor, but then the reader
> of the code will know exactly where to look for the code.

But Ada is also designed to catch errors made by the writer,
and if a new parent is inserted the procedure in question will
will be skipping a generation when that would be quite undesired
in most cases.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-02 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-01 21:36 Ada 200X And838N
2003-06-02  2:22 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2003-06-02  4:20 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-02 11:22   ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-02 14:09     ` Hyman Rosen
2003-06-02 14:23       ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-02 14:59         ` Hyman Rosen
2003-06-02 15:04           ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-02 15:18             ` Bill Findlay
2003-06-02 15:32               ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-02 15:41               ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-02 15:07           ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2003-06-02 15:04         ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-02 14:23     ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-02 14:31       ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-02 15:05         ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-02 15:06         ` Hyman Rosen
2003-06-02 21:05         ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-02 22:59           ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-03  4:07             ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-03  7:52           ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2003-06-03  9:09           ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-03 14:54             ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-04  7:38               ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-05  7:20                 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-06-02  5:36 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-06-02  8:02 ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-02 10:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-06-03  2:29 ` Steve
2003-06-03  2:45 ` Gautier Write-only
2003-06-03  8:38   ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-03 11:48   ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-03 12:14     ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2003-06-03 12:35       ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-07 21:16       ` Craig Carey
2003-06-08 11:14         ` Martin Dowie
2003-06-09 14:07           ` Craig Carey
2003-06-13 14:20             ` Matthew Heaney
2003-06-13 14:00         ` Matthew Heaney
2003-06-03 17:24     ` Robert A Duff
2003-06-03 17:45       ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-03 17:48         ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-03 18:05           ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-06-04 10:36             ` Preben Randhol
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-31  1:51 David Botton
2004-10-31  7:33 ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-31 18:59   ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-12-26 16:17 Ada 200x Adrian Hoe
2002-12-27 19:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-12-27 20:55   ` Robert A Duff
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