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From: dan.r.mcleran@seagate.com (Dan McLeran)
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Subject: Re: Feasibility of using Ada in new development
Date: 2 Sep 2004 08:11:54 -0700
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> You left out the most important thing, which is auto completion of
> procedure calls. The IDE should offer a choice of all matching names
> and parameter profiles. Once one is picked, it should display the
> name and type of each parameter.

Exactly. When one types Ada. a list of available Ada packages, types,
etc. should pop up to choose from. Then, if one types Ada.Calender. a
list of valid stuff for the Ada.Calendar package should pop up as
well. Every other IDE I've ever used has this feature (regardless of
language). It's quite a productivity hit to not have this kind of help
available when coding and once you've had it, you don't want to live
without it.

Beyond that, when one writes their own package e.g.

package My_Package is
   type My_Type is digits 10;
end My_Package;

The IDE should be smart enought to provide help when later one you use
that package:

   Some_Variable : My_Package. <- A list of types, procedures, etc.
from My_Package should pop up here.