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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: Learning Ada but missing the basics?
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:23:33 +0200
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Simon Wright wrote:

> "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com> writes:
> 
>> In this regard, gnat style switches are truly useful. I find I've
>> added quite a few over time to my defaults.
> 
> We use -gnaty (in other words, the defaults!). It seemed to me to be
> easier to do this than to have perpetual wrangles about which ones are
> in, which ones out.

This is true, but I use a large code base which would throw thousands of
warnings with this setting. Until I find the time to find a more palatable
solution (possibly separate project files for these offending parts), I've
found this to be the easiest.

In the same vein, in the past I used to hand pick my warning settings, while
nowadays I go with -gnatwa.

> 
> There was a complaint that the default line length (79) is too short,
> but this was from a person who believed in long names:
> 
>   Message_Processing.Process_The_Message (The_Message_To_Be_Processed :
>   String);
> 
> (and that's not the worst instance!)
> 
> This was the person who thought the way to get rid of style warnings
> was to turn them off.