From: Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com>
Subject: Re: Elimination of "use" clauses
Date: 1999/07/02
Date: 1999-07-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7lh74s$v36$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 377B5807.88B875E0@cs.york.ac.uk
In article <377B5807.88B875E0@cs.york.ac.uk>,
Neil.Audsley@cs.york.ac.uk wrote:
>
> We have a lot of Ada source that "with"s and "use"s a lot of
packages --
> to the extent that it is difficult and time-consuming to find
out which
> package a procedure is actually from.
> Ideally, we would like to eliminate "use" clauses,
necessitating the
> replacement of each procedure call X by PackageName.X instead.
> Is there a tool that does this?
I don't know of a dotification tool, but it seems strange to
claim that it is difficult and time-consuming to find out
which package a procedure is from. That sounds like you are
not using appropriate tools. Try using the EMACS interface
to GNAT, and you can immediately go from any identifier to
the declaration (and the proper package in which this
declaration appears). This is actually much more useful in
reading code, since you immediately find out not only what
package the identifier is in, but you go to the declaration
which shows you the details of what the identifier means.
There are other tools that have this same capability. This
seems pretty important functionality. There is also the gnatfind
utility available with GNAT for providing this same kind of
information in command line mode.
Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies
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Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-01 0:00 Elimination of "use" clauses Dr. Neil C. Audsley
1999-07-01 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-07-01 0:00 ` czgrr
1999-07-01 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-02 0:00 ` czgrr
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-01 0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-08 0:00 ` R. Tim Coslet
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-09 0:00 ` tmoran
[not found] ` <7ltl2q$mog$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
1999-07-08 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-14 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-10 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-07-03 0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
1999-07-03 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-07-03 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Peter Amey
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <7ltus1$ah1@dfw-ixnews19.ix.netcom.com>
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-07-18 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-18 0:00 ` jerry
1999-07-19 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-07-20 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-20 0:00 ` jerry
1999-07-20 0:00 ` Opaque Types (was Elimination of "use" clauses) David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-07-18 0:00 ` Elimination of "use" clauses Dale Stanbrough
1999-07-20 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-19 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-07-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-20 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-07-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-22 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-07-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-22 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-07-23 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-08-03 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-20 0:00 ` David Kristola
1999-07-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-19 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
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