From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Beware: Rep spec on an enumeration type ...
Date: 1997/12/19
Date: 1997-12-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67cqsh$q8t$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.882248672@merv
Robert Dewar writes:
"You ask above for a "focused effort .. solving the problems ...", but you
have in mind that the solution is to build an FAQ which will provide
simplistic rules (e.g. "never use formatted IO") that will magically
solve
your problems. Sorry, I don't think this is feasible!"
...but an FAQ that says "most of Ada is pretty predicatable, and like
most other languages (e.g. loops, if statements), but watch out for these
bits, they can be tricky and have unforseen consequences" would be
useful."
(i'm writing one right now, actually :-)
Besides such lists allow people to understand better what Ada is about,
depending on the coverage (e.g. it could also cover things such as
"a package is not a type", as one review a year or two back managed to
get wrong (still!)).
Dale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-12-19 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-12-11 0:00 Beware: Rep spec on an enumeration type Joe Gwinn
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-15 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-19 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough [this message]
1997-12-15 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-12-17 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
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