Re: Running a preprocessor from GPS?

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

Le mercredi 29 juillet 2015 à 15:32 -0700, EGarrulo a écrit :
> But is this a valid excuse?  Aren't programming languages supposed to
> let programmers write useful programs? 

You mean useful and unsafe. No thanks.

Nobody should care about programmers' fingers! Verbosity is one of the
strength as it makes the code far more *readable*. And remember that a
piece of code is written once and read many times during the
application lifetime.

> If Ada offered runtime typing by means of a type `Any`, then `Printf`
> could be trivially written as:
> 
>    type Printf_Arguments is array (Positive range <>) of Any;
>    
>    procedure Printf (Format : String; Arguments : Printf_Arguments);

This can be accomplished by libraries, an example is
GNAT.Formatted_String. But there is other implementations around.

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