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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9640b17421044f1a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: accesibility level problem Date: 1999/02/20 Message-ID: <7alc7m$uo2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 446289794 References: <36CD206A.32D96489@systems.at> <36CDE45C.5B5E04D8@lmco.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x7.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Feb 20 04:04:10 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-02-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <36CDE45C.5B5E04D8@lmco.com>, steve quinlan wrote: > My version of GNAT (3.11b) gives a different message : > > Non-local pointer cannot point to local object By the way, this is an example of an error message moving away from the technical RM description. It is our experience that talking about accessibility levels is not illuminating to the typical user, and the sections of the RM describing the accessibility rules are notoriously complex (ask Bob Duff's opinion, he was their author and I believe he has said he finds them hard to understand :-) So we replaced the original message by one that indicates the underlying rationale, and since we made that change, we have had no more questions about this error message! -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own