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From: jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter)
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Subject: Re: Readability of Ada
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Date: 30 Apr 91 02:48:37 GMT
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]>As a bonus, I include an enumerated type giving names to
]>all the shape types, so I can distinguish between them.

I think another poster will take you to task for this.

Besides, this is exactly how I'd do it in Ada.
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* "Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada." *
*      - P.J. Plauger, Convener and Secretary of the ANSI C Committee   *
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