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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b6e97963d32ee242 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-28 04:47:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The old "Object.Method" syntax debate Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 11:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <254c16a.0305210726.485125de@posting.google.com> <3ecdd3bf.1149272@news.btclick.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1054122440 6134 134.91.1.15 (28 May 2003 11:47:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 11:47:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/831)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37897 Date: 2003-05-28T11:47:20+00:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: : However, I'm not convinced that object.method makes it easier to : "popup a menu of 'options' for an object". But I've not used an IDE : that has such popups, so maybe I'm not qualified to say. I think you have, only they are called buffers displayed in a window inside a frame in Emacs. And these pop up too, even if you hadn't intended to ask for them to pop up ;-) (Yes, that can be configured ;-) (For those who haven't found the more tasty Emacs bits yet: Identifier completion has been in Emacs for quite some time now, and it is also possible in a more general form (see abbreviations and expansions) even if the compiler can't assist because of syntx errors. GNAT does assist when it can produce an index, i.e., can compile a unit.) Georg