From: "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" <wwgrol@pseserv3.fw.hac.com>
Subject: Re: maintenance of overriding subprograms
Date: 1997/09/09
Date: 1997-09-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3415C25A.3D7B@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5v3dlu$pgu$1@miso.it.uq.edu.au
> I have certainly been caught by misspelling a routine intended to override
> another. This would not be a problem if the two cases were syntactically
> distinguished.
> To be more specific, I spelt "Initialize" as "Initialise" which is the
> correct spelling of this word in Australian English. ( I know the Americans
> spell it with "ize", but am not sure how it is spelt by English people.)
> Anyway, this attempted overriding of the routine in Ada.Finalization resulted
> in a constraint error because of the failure to initialise the structure,
> rather than a compiler error which one would normally expect from misspelling
> an identifier.
Workaround (not the ideal, but would help)
for each identifier in a susceptible set
use "agrep" to look for close but not exact matches.
(agrep = approximate grep. It is also the basis of a Web tool
called glimpse. Web search for either should find plenty.)
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-02 0:00 maintenance of overriding subprograms Stephen Leake
[not found] ` <340DCE1D.6C5F@bix.com>
1997-09-04 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Dan Johnston D.B.
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-09-09 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923 [this message]
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Dan Johnston D.B.
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-24 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-09-25 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-26 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-08 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Anonymous
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1997-09-10 0:00 Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-29 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
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