From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Getting GNAT to issue ARM error messages
Date: 1999/02/13
Date: 1999-02-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7a490k$snr$1@plug.news.pipex.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36C47579.3D0CAFCB@averstar.com
It seems to me that Robert Dewar's argument is false, really. He seems to be
arguing, in essence, that "because it will help very few users, GNAT should
not issue references (to the RM95)". But, surely, if the references would
help any user at all (e.g. me), they should be included. How could they do
any harm?
I would happily agree that such references should (almost) never be
considered a replacement for a good error message, but only as a supplement.
Incidentally, I intend this more as a suggestion than a criticism. [There
are many other things one might suppose a compiler 'ought to do'. Some
particularly exacting programmers might fully expect their compiler to quote
the RM95 fully, as well as correcting their source code in-place
automatically, updating a central repository of programmers' typical
mistakes and associated corrections, telling a few jokes, and making the
coffee. Criticism is easy.]
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Nick Roberts "The Prophylactic Didactic"
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-08 0:00 Getting GNAT to issue ARM error messages David Peterson
1999-02-09 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-10 0:00 ` David Peterson
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-12 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-12 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
1999-02-13 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-14 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-14 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-15 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-16 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Alexy V Khrabrov
1999-02-15 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-15 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-02-16 0:00 ` steve quinlan
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-02-18 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-18 0:00 ` David Brown
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-02-17 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-17 0:00 ` steve quinlan
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-02-14 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-10 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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