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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9ae4660d46953150 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Nick Roberts" Subject: Re: Enhancement needed Date: 2000/09/13 Message-ID: <8pol3q$dnqb3$1@ID-25716.news.cis.dfn.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 669328377 References: <0$9CsHAKbiv5Ewg1@ntlworld.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 968873914 14412131 212.49.247.176 (16 [25716]) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-09-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I'd be grateful if you would mention what it was that you actually wanted your compiler to do, so I can make mine do the same. I'm always eager to please. People seem to think that compiler writers have to be legally coerced into doing anything; some of us will actually respond to a little courtesy. ;-) Personally, I find the Implementation Advice sections to be daft, from a certain point of view (along the lines of "we recommend you design the boat to be water resistant"). However, from another point of view, they're wonderful, since they go some way towards telling me what my compiler should do. It's (almost) always great to be told this, it eases the throbbing in my poor (12-neurone) brain no end. I think the IAs can be understood by understanding the RM95 in two lights: (a) the political viewpoint; (b) the technical viewpoint. The IAs fall in-between the two, where you can't _tell_ them to do something (that would be impolitic, the people who sell boats that sink would complain), but you can _recommend_ that they do it. Finally, compilers are _always_ irritating. It's their role in life. Compiler writers quite deliberately write their compilers to be as irritating as possible. Of course they do. Sensible and useful ways of doing things? Pah! -- Nick Roberts http://www.AdaOS.org PS: For anyone asking "When's the compiler gonna be ready, Nick?", the answer is the same old "Maybe 10 years". Sorry.