Re: "Subtract C, add Ada"

[gasser@masg1.epfl.ch (Laurent Gasser)]

I am a happy user of Think Pascal for Macintosh.  This defunct
compiler had two great (innovative?) tools: its debugger and an 
automatic text formatter in the editor.  You just type

if mytest then begin end else begin end;

and at the ; the automatic formatter gives

IF mytest THEN BEGIN
END
ELSE BEGIN
END;
  
where capitals may be bold (this is somehow parametable).  This avoids 
many many typos (in which case the formatter scrambles the mistyped 
word) and makes it easy to move up or down with respect to nesting. 
All this is done without compiling.  Surprisingly, this feature has 
not caught on in other environments I know... !?

Is this part of GNAT?

In article <3ejf9b$hbg@majestix.uni-muenster.de>, rentmei@asterix.uni-muenster.de (Jahn Rentmeister) writes:
|> But you surely know about people who - at one time - wrote things like
|> 
|>    for (i=0; i < MAX_LOOP; i++);
|>       field[i]=GetFieldValue(i);
|> 
|> The original statement you were criticizing says "single-keystroke errors,
|> such as...". There are more of them than just assignment and empty loops.
|> My golden C rule says "any sufficiently obscure error is due to a missing or
|> superfluos semicolon".

-- 
Laurent Gasser (gasser@dma.epfl.ch)
Computers do not solve problems, they execute solutions.

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