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, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,66752102482bbdca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Required Metrics Date: 2000/05/05 Message-ID: <8eul3n$thm$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 619584400 References: <5DDO4.2237$wb7.194854@news.flash.net> <8ek4ea$5ta$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <390DC8AD.59B5EBEE@averstar.com> <8emkv7$uf6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8es60q$5fm$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x43.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri May 05 14:16:39 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 2000-05-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , "Ken Garlington" wrote: > So, why are some meaningless requirements addressed by the > ARG, and others not? Because the ARG regards it as a waste of time to spend any time on the issue of obviously subjective requirements like the documentation requirements. All it takes is one member of the ARG to press to raise this issue, but no one has and no one is likely to. Even those who supported the inclusion of these requirements in the RM have no inclination to revisit the matter. I personally agree it would be a waste of time. But if there is a requirement which on its face *appears* to be well defined, but on careful technical analysis is not, then that's a good point for the ARG to resolve. In the particular case (Suppress ON) that I mentioned, this came up during the attempt to semi-standardize the GNAT pragma Unsuppress, and the question was what does UNsuppress/ON mean. THe facile answer: the same as Suppress/ON. But Unsuppress has far more potent semantics since it guarantees that a check will not be performed, unlike the case with Suppress/ON which guarantees nothing at all. So we really needed to be more precise, and we discovered that we were building on shifting sands here. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.