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: f43e6,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,3d3f20d31be1c33a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Interface/Implementation (was Re: Design by Contract) Date: 1997/09/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 270021193 References: <340F3801.47E5@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> Distribution: world Organization: PSINet Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1997-09-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article nospam@thanks.com.au (Don Harrison) writes: > "Does the Ada95 standard impose dependency-related ordering?" Not in the sense you mean here (i.e., the old Ada83 sense). > Okay, if your tools are sophisticated enough to find the operation > for you then that would help. It's true that in that case, the > ordering in the package body shouldn't matter. Anyone relying on outside tool support to generate things like the short form, etc. really shouldn't be implying that the sort of tool mentioned here is somehow advanced and/or rare. It's not. > Text editors are what I'm talking about. In particular, I'm > referring to the situation of scrolling through a package body and > expecting to find operations in the same order as the spec and > finding they're not, and then having to search for them. Come on Don - if you use something as primitive as vi, well whatever. However, any remotely reasonable IDE will give you "jump to this functions impl". /Jon -- Jon Anthony OMI, Belmont, MA 02178, 617.484.3383 "Nightmares - Ha! The way my life's been going lately, Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari