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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Access to strings and string subtypes?
Date: 2000/03/17
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In article <Pine.A41.3.96-heb-2.07.1000317054439.123892A-100000@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il>, Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il> writes:

> I had a feeling your answer is going to be something like this! I say -
> always keep GNAT arround, so you can take advantage of it good error
> messages, warnings etc. (It doesn't cost you, you know...)

An additional piece of software _always_ costs, in terms
of administration, familiarization, etc.  Perhaps it is worth
that cost because of GNAT's superior error messages -- that
will depend on the degree of trouble the original problem
caused.