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: 103376,67ca96c42837a9ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ehud Lamm Subject: Re: Getting GNAT to issue ARM error messages Date: 1999/02/15 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 444577239 References: <79oj1f$e8p$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <1999Feb10.073547.1@eisner> <7a1a9i$2kq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36C47579.3D0CAFCB@averstar.com> <7a490k$snr$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <7a5b71$d25$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7a7aat$mse$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <7a86hj$ka1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Organization: The hebrew University of Jerusalem Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 dewar@gnat.com wrote: > So let me state once again the philosophy of GNAT. It is > to provide RM references if and only if they seem useful > to typical users of the compiler. > This must be the right approach, and GNAT is a very good compiler - and so are the error messages. However, there's one thing I think important to think about. GNAT is used heaviliy for education. I think a part of really learning Ada, is being able to at list follow the general description of the RM, even if not grasp all the details. In this, I think, the compiler can help - by point the programmer to the RM. It is true that this was much nicer in Ada83, but I still think that in many cases the RM is readable - esp. when you have hypertext referecnes to definitions. I don't think it is a must, and I don't think this is really high priority. However since the discussion got the point where "typical users" were concerned, I'd thought I'd mention this viewpoint. Ehud Lamm mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il