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: 103376,67ca96c42837a9ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Getting GNAT to issue ARM error messages Date: 1999/04/20 Message-ID: <7fgupd$n7e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 468556662 References: <79oj1f$e8p$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36c1c82d.1234350@news.pacbell.net> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x10.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: Tue Apr 20 04:11:31 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-04-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own