Re: newbie can't get exceptions to work!

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <3ACDB29E.45B91316@earthlink.net>, Marc A. Criley says...
>
>Lately I've been trying out the approach that Dewar has advocated: 
>Liberal use of the use clause, and rely on your source code browser to
>locate definitions.  I haven't made up my mind on this approach yet.  On
..
>On the other hand, in order to use the browser, the code has to compile,
>and if I'm in the middle of performing open source surgery on a package
>and want to check out a type definition or procedure spec, the package
>is in no condition to compile and so I don't have access to the
>browser.  At least not with Emacs/GLIDE.

That in a nutshell is my main problem with that argument. You are essentially
making your code unreadable (well, not that bad perhaps, but getting there),
except in a very narrow circumstance. It has to compile, you have to have the
entire baseline handy and available, you have to be using Emacs to read it, you
can't change compilers...

Also, I don't see why the opposite approach could not be taken. Why not add a
"Hide/Show Full Names" option to Emacs?

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