Re: Language support for flexible handling of system-detected errors.

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com>]

Marin David Condic wrote:

> As for the comments? A lot of them have to do with trying to impose a very
> specific structure on a program to utilize the GUI programming model that
> MSVC++ defines. They're going "You have to write your program *this way* if
> you want to integrate with the GUI builder and have all the code generation
> we can do for you..." I'd suspect this might be easier to do in Ada, but you
> might still have to come up with some kludges to get the source code to line
> up with what the GUI builder is doing.
> 
> MDC

I'm not so sure that these kludges would be necessary for Ada,
for GUI or any other "wizard" IDE feature. With Ada's strong typing
features and ASIS "smarts", you should be able to locate the objects
or procedure calls that need tweaking by semantic analysis. If not
by type alone, then by type and pre-arranged name (within scoping
rules).

The only case that I can currently imagine a need for a place-holder
comment, might be when you need to mark the spot for the currently
"empty-set" of something.  But even there, if the package/object is
structured a certain way, even that should be deducible.

While I didn't pursue Borland's Delphi much, I was impressed by the
general lack of such muck. IIRC, Delphi never needed
any comments to locate objects of interest in the code.
-- 
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg