Re: Ada Idioms Progress Preview

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

James Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:<3B6A2616.C89C9760@worldnet.att.net>...
> I have posted a VERY early version of the Ada idioms page at
> http://home.att.net/~jimmaureenrogers/index.html
> 
> I have started at a beginner level. I will progress to more advanced
> idioms.
> 
> Jim Rogers
> Colorado Springs, Colorado USA



To me this is not a list of idioms, but rather a tutorial of Ada
features. That may have its own merits, but a list of real idioms
would be separately useful.

If there is a feature X in Ada that does Y, then saying that X is
an idiom for Y is not very helpful. To me an idiom is a combination
of features that is not so obvious, e.g. the following for labeling
branches of cases

   when XYZ => XYZ_Case : declare
      declarations
   begin
      ...
   end XYZ_Case;

or the use of declare blocks to get local suppression

   declare
      pragma Suppress (...)
   begin
      ...
   end;

or the use of pragma Import to suppress initialization when an address
clause is present.