Re: 'with'ing and 'use'ing

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>]

Charles Hixson wrote:
> A good cross-reference tool would be better, but I haven't seen one
> recently.  (Probably because programs/libraries have gotten too voluminous
> for them to handle properly.)  I suppose what's really needed is something
> like a smarter version of JavaDoc.  Of course an integrated tool like
> genitor would be nice, but it needs to be tuned to one language (C++ of
> course) and is a trifle too expensive for my pocket-book (which runs more to
> the Source-Navigator level [again tied to C++]).

The Adagide editor that comes free with Gnat for the PC does a pretty
spiffy job of cross referencing stuff. You highlight the item in
question and use a menu option or Control-G and it jumps you to where
the thing is declared. The only weakness it has is that all of the code
in question needs to be compiled first in order to have all the cross
reference information available. When you're still in development mode
and don't have everything compiling successfully this can be a
hindrance. But then again, I don't know how you could get a cross
reference built without *some* level of parsing the code, so I'm kind of
wishing for the impossible. :-)

MDC
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