From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,67ca96c42837a9ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Nick Roberts" Subject: Re: Getting GNAT to issue ARM error messages Date: 1999/02/13 Message-ID: <7a490k$snr$1@plug.news.pipex.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 443998190 References: <79oj1f$e8p$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <1999Feb10.073547.1@eisner> <7a1a9i$2kq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36C47579.3D0CAFCB@averstar.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Organization: UUNET WorldCom server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNET WorldCom) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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.] ------------------------------------------- Nick Roberts "The Prophylactic Didactic" -------------------------------------------