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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.224.171.72 with SMTP id g8mr25644055qaz.7.1374519840606; Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:04:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.120.8 with SMTP id ky8mr1462531igb.11.1374519840403; Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:04:00 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.11.MISMATCH!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!cb17no14254qab.0!news-out.google.com!dk8ni1201qab.0!nntp.google.com!cb17no14246qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:04:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=63.80.193.9; posting-account=nD_N8QoAAACgNfe5vMwm0rMAu4pgYumJ NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.80.193.9 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <7cbb4b66-9b59-4d82-a626-2fdc845ccbde@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: GNAT GPL is proving...educational From: Alan Jump Injection-Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 19:04:00 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 2730 X-Original-Bytes: 2979 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:182633 Date: 2013-07-22T12:04:00-07:00 List-Id: On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:28:45 AM UTC-7, Hibou57 (Yannick Duch=EAne) wro= te: > That's a common complain from people coming from Pascal. But that's not = =20 > Ada, that's GNAT. Nothing in the RM requires the specification and the = =20 > body belongs to separate files (it does neither requires Ada sources to b= e =20 > stored in files, by the way, it just requires Ada source to be text made = =20 > of characters). >=20 > About the other issue with files names, Niklas Holsti already gave you th= e =20 > answer. Of cause you can use child packages with GNAT :-p Got it. When I get home from my "real" job and have the opportunity, I'll m= ake the indicated changes and rebuild. It's all educational at this point, = so every error message is a teachable moment, yes? I still find myself wishing for a better "introductory" text than Barnes; I= 'm a neophyte coder, not a language lawyer. And it's already been said else= where (several times!) that the LRM is written as a cure for insomnia. I'd = be happy finding a good lower-division text that explains more of the "how"= and less of the "why". I have a copy of "Rendezvous with Ada 95" on the wa= y, and somewhere on my backup drive I have the Ada95 Wikibook. I may even, = somewhere, have the old Ada Tutor zip file stashed away, but that will take= some digging in dark corners to locate. In the meantime, though, I'll keep= feeding code into GNAT and working on figuring out the error messages that= code throws. :-) "No learning, no knowledge, is ever wasted." -- unknown