Re: Looking for a good Ada 95 book

[Darel Cullen <Darel@djcull.demon.co.uk>]

In article <329AB5C4.2E11@worldnet.att.net>, "S. McLain" <JSMCL-
endny@worldnet.att.net> spoke thus :-
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>I don't want to sound like an idiot, but are you saying that something 
>will detect what I'm writing or read what I've written and properly 
>format it?  If so, will it it run with GNAT 3.xx on a 486 pc?  I'm still 
>trying to figure out what "object_oriented is.
>-Skip

Absolutely yes.. 
Im not sure if you are familiar with emacs. if not get it.. preferably
for X11 (Xwindows) , and make sure to download the ada-mode for emacs
(you can load it with M-x <whatever the adamode is called>), try reading
the FAQ that comes along with comp.lang.ada, I think it mentions some
sites you can ftp the ada mode (basically a elisp program) that will
format your code for you. What emacs does is have a record of all
reserved words, and templates of how each structure is formatted, the
case of your code will be taken care of you realtime, but the
indentation can be invoke with the TAB key on each line , which will
correctly (most of the time!) place each source line in its correct
position.
The Rational command 'FORMAT' requires a rational environment
(expensive) usually restricted to large commercial operations, I've
generally found the FORMAT command to be 100% successful in formatting
code where as the ada mode (and i think i have the latest) tends to get
a bit confused in less standard constructs.

Hope this helps.


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Darel J. Cullen                    Software Engineer
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