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Re: [xacml] condition reference text (item 7)

From: Polar Humenn <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:16:00 -0000

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Subject: Re: [xacml] condition reference text (item 7)

From: Polar Humenn <[email protected]>
To: Simon Godik <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:27:45 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Simon Godik wrote:

> Hi Tim,
> My thinking was that we can place variable definition close to the rule. I'm
> also ok to group all definitions together.
> (as you propose)

This feature is really just estetic.  Back in old compiler technology, it
used to be easier on the compiler to group definitions before their use.
However, with languages today, this doesn't seem to matter much.

I don't really see a real reason to group all the variable definitions
away from the rules, yet, I don't have any real objection to it.

One such benefit of interspersal, is that you can define a variable near
the rule(s) it is used, which I think was the original intent.

Cheers,
-Polar

> Simon
>
>