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On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Joe Pluta wrote:

> > What is A?  What is B?  How will moving A to B affect B?  Does A contain
> > valid data for the data type of B?  The first method answers all these
> > questions.
>
> So does looking at a compiler listing.  Or a D-spec.  This "benefit" of
> being able to tell the length and width of every affected field by looking
> at a single source statement is overvalued at best.  Sure, it's nice for my

Well let's just chalk it up to different coding preferences then.  As much
as you dislike the extra syntax I hate reading through a compile listing
or paging all the time to find out what a variable is.  I will gladly type
a little more in order to know exactly what is going on.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com



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