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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,67ca96c42837a9ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) Subject: Re: Getting GNAT to issue ARM error messages Date: 1999/02/10 Message-ID: <36c1c82d.1234350@news.pacbell.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 442887947 References: <79oj1f$e8p$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.pbi.net 918669624 207.214.215.15 (Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:00:24 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:00:24 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > the Ada 95 RM, in a (successful) attempt to be >more precise is definitely much less accessible than the >Ada 83 RM to a novice reader. How about references to the Ada 83 RM, then. Or better, a new doc which is stylistically as helpful as the 83 RM, but covers the 95 changes. One problem with any message is that what's crystal clear to the author is not necessarily so to all readers. It's useful in anything to have alternate sources of explanation, not because one is necessarily clearer in all cases, but just because having the same thing described in two different ways decreases the probability that any given reader will still not understand.