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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b016bcd86618a299 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: majoaggro@aol.com (Majoaggro) Subject: Re: ASIS information requested Date: 1997/11/30 Message-ID: <19971130190501.OAA20473@ladder01.news.aol.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 293954114 References: X-Admin: news@aol.com Organization: AOL, http://www.aol.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: thanks for the reply. i have had many helpful e mails from several of the authors of ASIS and can now appreciate the utility of ASIS, which seems to be able to recover just about any information if it is stored by the compiler in the first place! it also appears that the problem may not be finding the information, it may be using it. objects appear to be notional things in ada, and working out what an programmer intended from the procedures and types found looks like the challenge. the problem may be like integration, where the process can never recover all the information of the original undifferentiated state? 9 my maths is not that good, this may be a terrible example!).