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,b36dd33f588facee X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Dale Stanbrough Subject: Re: gnat.spitbol.patterns.match(...) Date: 2000/10/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 678438616 References: <8rj38u$1d6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8rkq27$c44$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: news@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 970866198 144.132.95.55 (Sat, 07 Oct 2000 08:03:18 EST) Organization: RMIT User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.0 (PPC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 08:03:18 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > The point to realize here is that this feature in GNAT > duplicates the full semantics and also somewhat the syntax > of another complex language (SNOBOL-4). You cannot expect > to begin to understand code using this feature without putting > in the effort to learn this language (which is not trivial). > The 20 page tutorial in g-spipat.ads is a bare introduction > to the language, but is only that. To fully use this feature, > if you are not familiar with SNOBOL-4, you probably need to > read some other SNOBOL-4 materials :-) I didn't have a problem with the Snobol part, (although i find the use of 'Unrestricted_Access can make spitbol code a bit ugly); it was the full package name syntax, and the strange formatting that i found hard to cope with. Dale