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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: C/C++ programmer giving Ada95 a chance -- writing an emulator.
Date: 2000/04/07
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In article <38ECE79C.4F70D434@maths.unine.ch>,
  Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch> wrote:
> There is an exception to both arguments: compiling with DEC
> Ada on a fast AXP server. Compiling a module with a few errors
> can produce thousands of lines of fast scrolling terrifying
> disagnostics, so I hesitate to recompile too early...


Well I think we can all agree that fast scrolling terrifying
diagnostics are NOT a good thing :-)

Actually there is an interesting debate there, some people
like the extreme verbosity of the DEC Ada error messages,
for me they are simply too verbose, and I prefer terser
messages.

In GNAT, we introduced the -gnatf flag which gives some useful
level of control over the level of verbosity, If you like
error messages in the DEC Ada style, you will certainly find
-gnatf an improvement (I don't like to use it personally).


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