From: Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com>
Subject: Re: Getting GNAT to issue ARM error messages
Date: 1999/04/20
Date: 1999-04-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7fgupd$n7e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36c1c82d.1234350@news.pacbell.net
In article <36c1c82d.1234350@news.pacbell.net>,
tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) wrote:
> > the Ada 95 RM, in a (successful) attempt to be
> >more precise is definitely much less accessible than the
> >Ada 83 RM to a novice reader.
> How about references to the Ada 83 RM, then. Or
> better, a new doc
> which is stylistically as helpful as the 83 RM, but
> > covers the 95 changes.
Once again, I will say that what is useful is *specific*
examples of error messages that illustrate the point you
are trying to make, along with suggestions for
improvements. It is surprising (and disappointing) that
the long thread on this subject a few months ago did not
result in even ONE suggestion of a message where an RM
reference would be helpful.
Indeed several people who contributed to the thread saying
they would like RM references had not even seen error
messages from GNAT, and in one case they had not even read
the Ada 95 RM :-)
We do get suggestions on error messages from our users,
particularly from students of Martin Carlisle and Michael
Feldman (thank you very much for these contributions), and
we constantly try to improve error messages in GNAT.
If you find an error message you think could be clearer,
send along a note to report@gnat.com. Even if you think you
are being unreasonable in asking GNAT to do a better job in
some particular situation, don't hesitate to suggest,
sometimes things that look really hard turn out to have a
possible solution, and giving good error messages is
something we put a lot of effort into!
Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies
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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 ` Tom Moran
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-04-20 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
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 ` dewar
1999-02-15 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-02-16 0:00 ` steve quinlan
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
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
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 ` David Brown
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-15 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-16 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Alexy V Khrabrov
1999-02-14 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-10 0:00 ` dewar
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