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Cephus� wrote:

> What I was saying is that the debugger is for the programmer to use at
> his/her discretion. Anyone can have a logic error somewhere and instead of
> desk checking themselves, just use the debugger. You can have logical errors
> in Ada, C, Java, APL, Pascal, etc....  and you can use the debugger to sort
> through it...
> 
> It does help a lot in compilation errors, but I usually only use it when I
> am having a logical error...not everyone is perfect and thier thought
> process isn't perfect everytime :)

As I said, welcome to Ada.  You will be pleasantly surprised at how soon 
you forget how to use the debugger.  By the way, if you are not sure of 
something, in GNAT it is very easy to use pragma Debug and pragma 
Assert, along with -gnata to turn the extra checks and messages on.

-- 

                                                        Robert I. Eachus

�In an ally, considerations of house, clan, planet, race are 
insignificant beside two prime questions, which are: 1. Can he shoot? 2. 
Will he aim at your enemy?� -- from the Laiden novels by Sharon Lee and 
Steve Miller.