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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-29 14:11:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in.nuthinbutnews.com!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3ED673F3.4030509@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X References: <6a90b886.0305262344.1d558079@posting.google.com> <3ED3CCAE.C8733E2C@somewhere.nil> <3ED49304.8D22F012@cfmu.eurocontrol.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 16:56:19 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1054241780 198.96.223.163 (Thu, 29 May 2003 16:56:20 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 16:56:20 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38014 Date: 2003-05-29T16:56:19-04:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes: >>In article <3ED49304.8D22F012@cfmu.eurocontrol.be>, Ian Wild writes: >>>Larry Kilgallen wrote: >>>>...There was absolutely no poorly-designed >>>>language commenting convention omitted from that paragraph ! >>> >>>SGML. ... > Here's an even worse commenting convention: the one in Unix 'make'. > A comment goes from # to end-of-line (OK so far). I had a make file > written in GNU make, and it had something like: > > MACRO= > > or something like that, where "" is some > GNU-make-supported thing for getting a list of files in the current > directory. I can't remember the syntax -- some arcane incantation, no > doubt. > > Anyway, once in a while, cvs puts a file in the directory called > ..#mumble, so the MACRO would expand to something with a # in it, and the > rest of the macro would be "commented out". I wasted an hour debugging > this! And Unix doesn't help by having the "ls" command fail to display > files starting with "." (grr). > > To have comment processing happen after macro expansion would be like an > Ada program that happens to read in the text "--" from a file (at run > time), and having that somehow cause the rest of the input file to be > ignored! > > - Bob (!!) I think I have run into this, but can't recall the details (it wasn't with ada, but some o.s. package that used all the geewhiz gmake features). I probably deleted the directory and then checked out the code again, and then unwittingly fixed it. I'll have to remember that one! Very sneaky indeed. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg