1. Re: routine_id(), etc.
- Posted by jiri babor <jbabor at PARADISE.NET.NZ>
Jul 05, 2000
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Last edited Jul 06, 2000
In sharp contrast to David, I have no problem agreeing with him,
occasionally. He wrote:
>In practice, it's quite easy to get around the restriction to the
>scoping of routine_id; instead of writing:
>
> foo( "bar" ... )
>
>I instead have to write:
>
> foo( routine_id("bar") ... )
That's exactly what I was moaning about. But Robert and some of his
staunch supporters (see, Hawke', I resisted your 'brown nose'
alternative - welcome back, my friend) obviously believe the second
version is somehow more readable. 'Readability' is probably the most
abused term in this forum, so I'll add my bit too: it's definitely
*not* an automatic product from a set of restrictive rules, it's
simply a result of clear, logical layout, sensible naming conventions,
liberal use of comments and plenty of white space.
Talking about comments, I believe '--' comes from Ada, a language I
have, fortunately, never been forced to use.
jiri
