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From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Gnat pretty printing
Date: 1998/12/11
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In article <74oa8h$2dj$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  okellogg@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> In article <366E86FF.64933A71@lmco.com>,
>   Steve O'Neill <steven.m.oneill@lmco.com> wrote:
> >
> > Well GNAT the compiler doesn't do this (nor would I
expect it to).
>
> This is one GNAT feature I had been toying around
implementing
> but haven't got around to doing. It's certainly not
difficult to do this.
> In previous versions of GNAT there was some option that
> reproduced the source from the internal syntax tree. The
only thing
> to do would have been, adjust identifier capitalization
and preserve
> comments.
>
> -- Oliver
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This is not quite so simple, this approach would lose
the comments. There is no simple way to avoid this. I
think it would be better to use a separate tool, e.g.
build on emacs.

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