coding standard for ada95

coding standard for ada95

[Edmond Walsh]

does anyone know of a source for a recomended ada95 coding standard?
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Edmond Walsh

Re: coding standard for ada95

[Tom Moran]

>does anyone know of a source for a recomended ada95 coding standard?
Ada Quality and Style (available on the web, I believe) 
Also the Gnat folks like the style in their compiler, whose source you
can download and view.

Re: coding standard for ada95

[John McCabe]

The Quality and Style guide would be a good place to start.

I am not a fan of coding standards but then again in my experience they 
have been produced by QA guys who don't know much about the language and 
start putting restrictions on the use of certain features (e.g. tasking, 
generics) because at some point they heard they were not very efficient 
and so on. 

I would recommend that if you are going to produce a coding standard that 
you try to place as few restrictions as possible on language feature 
usage, and only then when you can justify the restrictions based on 
knowledge of the operating system and compiler you are using.

Also you may wish to define a format for the layout of the code. For 
specific projects I would recommend that you define a standard text 
editor which can be configured for use with the language in question. 
Emacs would be a prime example using ada-mode with a standard set of 
customisation options.

Hope this helps ;-)

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Best Regards
John McCabe

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Re: coding standard for ada95

[Markus Kuhn]

I think the "Ada 95 Quality and Style Guide" on

http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/adaic/docs/style-guide/95style/html/cover.html

is a very helpful document that I'd highly recommend every programmer
to have a look at. There are also downloadable versions on

http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/adaic/docs/style-guide/95style/

Markus

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