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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c15a8d7f9770bcd8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-04 16:42:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.nyroc.rr.com!chnws02.ne.ipsvc.net!cyclone.ne.ipsvc.net!24.128.8.70!typhoon.ne.ipsvc.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey Creem" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <4519e058.0204040903.47f037bc@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: AdaBrowse 1.5 available X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 00:28:30 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.31.5.146 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: typhoon.ne.ipsvc.net 1017966510 66.31.5.146 (Thu, 04 Apr 2002 19:28:30 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 19:28:30 EST Organization: ATT Broadband Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22120 Date: 2002-04-05T00:28:30+00:00 List-Id: wrote in message news:AQ0r8.851$Pd4.138617873@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com... > > but ASIS is a much better approach, ... > > ... and get rid of that stupid Perl script altogether? > How would you generate reviewable docs for something that exists > only as the public part of a set of Ada specification parts? ie, > that's uncompilable and thus un-ASIS-able? Or what happens when Good question. > the latest compiler version has a bug that prevents compilation, > and ASIS generation, and thus prevents doc generation? Umm..Use the older compiler version... To be fair, the perl script is not really that much better in this regard since it requires that the ali files be present so if a new compiler comes out and the code will not compile you may not get enough data in the ali file to run it either.