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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: GNAT Error Reporting
Date: 1999/02/18
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In article <7ahvaa$10t$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> DEC Ada when integrated with LSE (DEC's answer to emacs)
> would do this for very simple errors (missing close
> parens, etc.).


Actually around GNAT 3.06, I implemented stylized error
messages for missing and extra punctuation tokens that were
intended to drive such circuitry, but it never got done.
Now that we are doing a lot of work on GNAT/EMACS
integration, this seems like a nice thing to revisit!

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