From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6daa71b20c856e57 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-05 18:00:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!jfk3-feed1.news.digex.net!dca6-feed2.news.digex.net!intermedia!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.tampabay.rr.com!news-post.tampabay.rr.com!typhoon.southeast.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Emery Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Java to Ada... Message-ID: <051020012055234729%demery@cox.rr.com> References: <3BBCE3A6.B15C1559@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <3BBDDF82.3D06E659@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit User-Agent: YA-NewsWatcher/4.2.4 Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 00:55:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.61.175.80 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.southeast.rr.com 1002329703 66.61.175.80 (Fri, 05 Oct 2001 20:55:03 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 20:55:03 EDT Organization: RoadRunner - Cox Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13819 Date: 2001-10-06T00:55:03+00:00 List-Id: ... Last I heard, the author was working on an > option to produce Ada source files from the class files. Karl Nyberg and I did a paper on this for Ada Europe a couple of years ago. There's one really significant problem with generating Ada package specs from class files, and that is that the parameter names are missing. Otherwise, most of what you'd want to know about a class can be figured out from the class file, which is kind of neat. By the way, the absence of named parameter notation is #2 on my list of big mistakes in the Java language. #1 is the lack of separation of spec and body. dave