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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada++ Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 12:27:26 +0200 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net; news.eternal-september.org Message-ID: References: <50711230-5b14-4278-b9d8-d197bbe3c93b@googlegroups.com> <9320040f-5486-4d1e-847d-f81b0a59fcfa@googlegroups.com> <188c7ade-b9ce-4bd7-8752-64e0c8a3a0f2@googlegroups.com> <94b7b004-6d12-4586-b1d0-cb2a21ac52f0@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 10:27:26 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="76dd23500755d043b8667c3e786b6c3c"; logging-data="8789"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/4sDeZGUH4I5BJ3eaDb7p2a0nddACBFEU=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:bLnj9oCUhbXQWUs1bb8BA+srHjU= In-Reply-To: <94b7b004-6d12-4586-b1d0-cb2a21ac52f0@googlegroups.com> Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:58862 Date: 2020-05-29T12:27:26+02:00 List-Id: On 5/29/20 11:43 AM, raph.amiard@gmail.com wrote: > > Every time you want to embed a multi line string in an Ada app you need to go through this frankly annoying gymnastics. A S/W engineer, when encountering "frankly annoying gymnastics" a 2nd time, creates an abstraction to hide the "frankly annoying gymnastics", and so never has to go through the "frankly annoying gymnastics" ever again. -- Jeff Carter "Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?" Horse Feathers 49