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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8bc34e14e4555720 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-05 06:43:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!sfo2-feed1.news.digex.net!intermedia!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator-la!news-in-la.newsfeeds.com!news-in.superfeed.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9pk4t7$tbm$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <87zo762rta.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <9pkc0r$m5j$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> Subject: Re: This is a simple question Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 09:43:16 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 13:43:16 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13783 Date: 2001-10-05T13:43:16+00:00 List-Id: In article <9pkc0r$m5j$1@trog.dera.gov.uk>, Stephen Cole says... >As for question 2. from reading this newsgroup I get the impression that >there are quite a few "bugs" in gnat?! Is this a fair appraisal? Or is it There are quite a few bugs in pretty much *any* large program, including all compilers. The difference with Gnat is that it has lots of users, and is Free Software, so discussion goes on about it in the open. This has nothing at all to do with Ada. Go check out the GCC mailing list, and you'll see that the vast majority of the talk there is about bugs. Generally I find that Gnat has *less* problems compling complicated constructions than other Ada compilers I have used. Certianly no compiler bugs that I have encountered in it in the last 5 years are what I would consider "serious". Versions of it have been succesfully run through the Ada validation suite, and have passed more of its tests than any other compiler. But it does still have some minor problems in rarely-used areas. p.s. One piece of advice: As a beginner, you would probably be much better off avoiding the "use packagename;" clause altogether. Its very contraversial, as it makes your source code less explicit. I don't ever use it, and most of the projects I've worked on had that written into the coding standards (without my help). But many other people whose opinions I respect feel its OK in certain circumstances. When you have learned the language better you can make the choice for yourself as to when its appropriate, but for now don't use it. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.