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,c2f62556e56c9683 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ehud Lamm Subject: Re: 'with'ing and 'use'ing Date: 2000/03/04 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 593178372 References: <38BC2EB3.2639372B@acm.org> <89l6aj$s5e$1@wanadoo.fr> <38BE974F.B8FAFEBE@earthlink.net> <89ml92$5c1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38BEF1A3.24B566BF@earthlink.net> <89rpuc$n9p$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.huji.ac.il X-Trace: news.huji.ac.il 952201071 14590 132.64.178.45 (4 Mar 2000 20:17:51 GMT) Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Mar 2000 20:17:51 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-04T20:17:51+00:00 List-Id: This talk about what comes with GNAT, prompts me to tell this anecdote. In the previous semseter we gave an exercise to output the "with-graph" of an Ada system (start with the "main",follow the "with"s. Nothing too fancy. This was explained in the exerices text). Of course, students said that this is hard to do, requires them to wirte a parser for Ada (I wanted a line count of all files traversed...) etc. etc. No one said "Hey the ALI files have this info," not to mention find out about the XREF reports the gnat tools give you. (The exercise wasn't mandatory, so no one did it... So I don't have any nice Ada parsers to share) Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ehudlamm <== My home on the web Check it out and subscribe to the E-List- for interesting essays and more!