Re: Pascal to Ada translator/ aflex,ayacc GNAT ports

["wiljan" <W.Derks@nl.cis.philips.com>]

Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote in article
<dewar.849318953@merv>...
> I am confused, you seem to be talking in generalities (which are in fact
> reasonable), but you don't seem to talk to this specific case. Can you
> show an example where you think it is inappropriate to translate the
> Pascal "with" into an Ada renaming?
I think that when one has:
    type rec=record a,b:integer end;
    var x:rec;
    ....
    with x do a:=3;
is best translated to
    x.a:=3;
With a rename it whould look like:
    x1:rec renames x;
    x1.a:=3;
Note that when translating to an Ada renaming one must add extra names
which also does not attribute to clear code.

Wiljan