From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Gnat For use at Question
Date: 1996/07/12
Date: 1996-07-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.837148506@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: JSA.96Jul11143114@organon.com
Jon notes that we give an RM reference on this error message
"junk2.adb:4:36: must be constant defined before "Some_Array" (RM 13.1(22))"
Normally we avoid giving RM references, since the RM is seldom helpful if
a message is not clear, and we regard the challenge in error messages
to get short clear messages that do NOT send you scurrying off to the RM
to understand them.
However, this particular case is a rather obscure restriction, and we got
bombarded with people demanding to know how we justified this restriction
Hence the (for GNAT) unusual RM reference in an error message :-)
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-11 0:00 Gnat For use at Question Spasmo
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-07-13 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Spasmo
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Spasmo
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Spasmo
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Spasmo
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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