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: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-31 00:25:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <401B666E.4090806@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor References: <400BDB7C.40100@noplace.com> <400D2150.6000705@noplace.com> <400E72F9.8060501@noplace.com> <100upo7ln5e3k59@corp.supernews.com> <400FC8E8.2040100@noplace.com> <4011127C.4030801@noplace.com> <101377e54car5cc@corp.supernews.com> <4017AAEF.1020304@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 08:25:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.0.133 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1075537523 209.165.0.133 (Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:25:23 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:25:23 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5139 Date: 2004-01-31T08:25:23+00:00 List-Id: You mean like when the compiler is supposed to detect that a specification is out of date and recompile whatever depends on it? :-) Let's be practical. Ada specifies things that require some kind of "Outside The Source File" action to take place. Its not technically impossible or outside the bounds of a language standard to do that. You could write a rule that said some logical name or function would exist that an implementation is required to get a string into at compile time and that the string could be used for conditional compilation via a pragma or some other mechanism. There could be ways of specifying within the language how to connect different filenames to different packages just like there's a mechanism to associate an Ada logical package name with some actual file right now. The exact details of how a user does it from the outside might not be portable - but then neither is the means of invoking the Ada compiler on some set of files right now. MDC Pascal Obry wrote: > > > :) You know that this is not portable. Ada has nothing to do with file system > and configuration management. > > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================