Re: Ada Code Formatting

[jdveale@world.std.com (James D. Veale)]

kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson) writes:
>A simpler, and nearly as useful, utility would translate its Ada input
>into individual tokens and print them one per line.  So, for example,
>this input:

>    with Text_IO;
>    procedure Hello is -- a comment
>    begin
>	Text_IO.Put_Line("Hello");
>    end Hello;

>would yield this output:

>    with
>    text_io
>    ;
>    procedure
>    hello
>    is
>    begin
>    text_io
>    .
>    put_line
>    (
>    "Hello"
>    )
>    ;
>    end
>    hello
>    ;

>You could then run two versions of an Ada source through this relatively
>simple filter and compare the outputs.  If they compare equal, there is
>no semantically significant difference between the original sources.
>If they don't, finding where in the original sources the differences
>occur is left as an exercise.

That's essentially what Complite does,  and what I mean by a word-by-word
comparison where words are separated by common programming language 
delimiters as well as blanks.  The results of the comparison are then
re-integrated into their original line-oriented form with changed words 
highlighted,  correlated scrolling between the two files etc. 

    Jim Veale