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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,8415ea38d87a014 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!w3bhost.de!feeder.xsnews.nl!feeder.news-service.com!post.news-service.com!news1.surfino.com!not-for-mail Message-Id: <2129761.eOLxeXSBdn@linux1.krischik.com> From: Martin Krischik Subject: Re: span string. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:59:27 +0200 References: <1970392.kVO4lUF19A@linux1.krischik.com> User-Agent: KNode/0.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@surfino.com Organization: Surfino Gmbh NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.169.175.19 (83.169.175.19) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 23:00:04 +0200 X-Trace: ae587426ab754f60c0ab611421 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10657 Date: 2005-04-23T21:59:27+02:00 List-Id: Steve wrote: > It would be nice to have a good explanation of each routine of each unit > in the standard library described in Annex A. Yes indeed. > I use the information that is in the RM as much as I can, but often find > that questions go unanswered. Often resulting in writing small test > programs or looking at GNAT source files to try to figure out what a > routine does or how to use it. The difference between a reference manual and a tutorial. That's what the wiki pages have been started for. > It seems like the Wiki would be an ideal place to elaborate on each of the > functions/procedures and their use. We are working on it. But there is so much Ada to describe and so little time to do it. Help is allways welcome. > Any chance the RM could be converted to Wiki form so that explanations > could be added where needed? Currently we just link to the RM in our descriptions. Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com