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On 24-Jul-14 22:43, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> It simply was too hard for a tool that primarily
> does text-level analysis. Indeed, I can't imagine that they could have
> reasonably implemented Ada visibility rules (short of basing their tools on
> ASIS or some specific Ada compiler) -- it's just too hard of a project. I'm
> sure doing that wasn't a priority for them, the priority would have been the
> proof facilities.


Programs shouldn't be analyzed as text, too many "Why can't I parse XML 
with RegEx!?" posts on programming-help sites [like StackOverflow] point 
to this.

and isn't this what DIANA was intended for: to provide access to the 
actual structure of the program [essentially] independent of the text?