Re: Do you do ASIS?

[Joe Wisniewski <wisniew@acm.org>]

In article <89pbt1$448$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  David W. Glessner <david_glessner@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <89ot3v$og9$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   Joe Wisniewski <wisniew@acm.org> wrote:
>
> > Any thoughts?
>
> What's ASIS?  :-)/2
>
> How would ASIS help me do my job better?  I think ASIS (or something
> like it) may be behind the scenes when I use Apex's and
> GNAT/emacs/ada-mode's source navigation facilities, but what else
> can it be used for?

   Standards checkers
   Calling trees
   Browsers
   Type dictionary tools
      (Say you have to store off data objects and send them to an
       off-line application that has to interpret the data/
       walk the bits.)
   Style enforcers
   Any kind of tool that needs to interrogate the source
     (All occurrences of ..... whatever)
   Testing tools/driver generator tools, etc.
      (This is an area that I think might have the most appeal.)
    Dependency analysis
   Tasking Analysis
   Any kind of static analysis
   Answer to "Which types have a size that can not be guaranteed to
     be known at compile time.
   etc.

>
> I tried Apex's "Visit ASIS" feature the other day, hoping it
> would tell me which "/" operator the compiler had chosen for a
> particular expression.  No luck.  Granted, maybe I should have
> RTFM.
>
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