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From: "Dr. Michael Paus" <paus@ib-paus.com>
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Subject: Re: Refactoring and Ada
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Robert Dewar schrieb:
> 
> "Dr. Michael Paus" <paus@ib-paus.com> wrote in message news:<3C62C7EC.4ACBC1@ib-paus.com>...
> > If I really want to know where this function is defined
> > it is sufficient to look at the declaration of x so
> > that you know where the type is defined and you have to
> > go on and search for the place where the parent type of
> > B_Type is defined because in case of an inherited
> > function it is not physically located in the package that
> > you have to use for the qualification.
> 
> I trust that your tools short circuit the process you
> describe above and allow you to easily get from the occurrence to the
> declaration (it seems to me that such
> tools are really very useful indeed in large Ada programs).
> I know that in the past some Ada systems have not had this
> capability (and indeed the painful nature of searching for
> declarations in such systems is part--but certainly not
> all-- of the reason for the odd use-allergy that strikes
> many Ada programmers), but these days I think most Ada
> systems DO have that capability,

Well, even if you do not have a powerful IDE, gnathtml is
for free and gives you most of the support you need here.

Michael