Re: ada writing guide

[kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)]

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In article <38FFD43E.70F1BB7D@telepath.com>, Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
>> Ted, I think you missed my point :-) I will say again, that
>> this kind of mistake is COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE for my working
>> environment. Why, because every time I check something in, I
>> carefully verify that the changes I am making are exactly as
>> I expect them to be. I find any system which does not involve
> 
> Ahh, you're right, I didn't catch that part before. So you are saying
> you always do a diff and visually inspect the report prior to doing a
> checkin? That would indeed catch the problem. It wouldn't *prevent* the
> problem, but it would catch it before you hose the baseline. The removal
> of an item would stick out like a sore thumb on a diff. Personally, I'd
> prefer to see the problem prevented than caught though. Remember that my
> complaint was that it can happen in the first place, not that its
> impossible to catch.

But there is nothing to prevent me, in using an editor, from making
a change that exactly removes a previous change.  Therefore, human
inspection of what gets checked in will always be required.