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: "HollymaN" Subject: Re: New to Ada need some help Date: 2000/02/04 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 581643885 References: <3883B6A7.60931458@home.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 949695091 216.208.186.219 (Fri, 04 Feb 2000 15:11:31 EST) Organization: Sympatico X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 15:11:31 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: change class or university ada is no good for finding a job if care about that of course 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 > >