Re: Is Smart Eiffel ready for large-scale application ? (Modula 3 and Eiffel verbosity and libraries)

Il giorno mar, 12/04/2005 alle 11.47 +0200, Wolfgang Jansen ha scritto:
> What I hate is the proposed style, e.g.
> 
>    from
>       i := 1
>    until
>       i > n
>    loop
>       ...
>    end
> 
> instead of
> 
>    from i:=1 until i>n loop
>       ...
>    end
> 
> The first needs 5 times more lines than the second thereby
> moving 4 LOC out of the reader's view, possibly onto the
> next page. If ever possible, the entire syntactic construct
> should be visible at once and it should be clearly separated
> from other constructs. In the second form of the loop example
> "from" and "end" are the well visible bounds. The loop limits
> (which are not emphasized) are detail information and can be
> read later when loop details become interesting.
I fully agree here! While I "had" to follow GOBO guidelines writing
ewg-gtk2 and admitting that they are somehow addicting, they are too
much verbose.

	Paolo