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 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c17c8c240bfbd68f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." Subject: Re: New to Ada need some help Date: 2000/01/18 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 574054695 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3883B6A7.60931458@home.com> X-Priority: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-ELN-Date: Mon Jan 17 19:05:10 2000 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 948164710 158.252.122.234 (Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:05:10 PST) Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. X-MSMail-Priority: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:05:10 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Deadmeat wrote in message news:3883B6A7.60931458@home.com... > Hi, I've a class in programming languages. The Prof. wants us to use > Ada to demonstrate some things, like the ambiguity of the IF THEN IF > ELSE ENDIF statement. I have down loaded Object Ada 7.1 from Aonix. It > seems way cool but it doesn't have the help setup to make it easy to > find language components. I have experience with C and all the C IDEs > that I have used would let you look up commands with the help. For > example in C I can do a search in help for strstr and come up with an > explanation of the function and an example. I can't seem to find this > anywhere in the help with object ada or on line. I had to trace through > the BNF to find out that the else if clause is elsif, what a pain. I > have found a function Is_In but it takes a character set as an > argument. I have been unable to locate how to define a character set. > Could someone point me in the right direction so that my life will be a > little easier. TIA > I assume that you're running on Windows 9X or Windows NT, from the reference to Object Ada. You can download the Ada Reference Manual in Windows Help File format from ftp://ftp.ada95.com/pub/rm95-winhelp/ This help file contains many hyperlinks and the regular Windows Help Find and Topic Index mechanisms. I hope this helps.