Re: Re: Refactoring and Ada

["Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@nospam.baesystems.com>]

> > Yeah - with an option for 'native' or 'ravenscar' :-)
>
> Nice idea!
>
> > I have been toying with the scripts to try and cope with transforming
C++
> > names that are invalid in Ada into something that would be ok - then I
could
> > import C++ code into UML classes and produce Ada from those. Do
> > you have any info. on the scripting language used? I'm flying blind
here!
>
> It's a close cousin to Lisp.  I already have a function in there that
makes Ada
> names (converting interior blanks into underscores, etc.) from the diagram
> elements, perhaps that would be the place to start. But it doesn't look
for
> leading underscores, a la C++.  Look for a function named 'MakeAdaName'.

Thanks, yes, that's exactly where I've been playing about. As well as
leading underscores, there are trailing underscores to consider and also
'what do you change it to?' I doubt just removing either underscore would be
good enough as (bizarrely) there may be another field with that name! A
known and _very_ random pre/post fix could be added I suppose... not 100%
bullet proof but with suitable 'information text' the user could decide
what to do