From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Question about base types
Date: 1997/02/12
Date: 1997-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.855750498@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EACHUS.97Feb11181622@spectre.mitre.org
Robert Eachus said
<< When porting code from one system to another these are the messages
that show up. Somethimes the workaround is easy sometimes hard, but
it is a royal PAIN to spend time searching for why the blasted thing
doesn't work. A diagonstic like this will have users looking at what
has been changed in the declaration of x, rather than starting to work
on the real problem.>>
I'll say it again :-)
I never pay too much attention to what the Ada experts think *might* be
confusing. I pay attention to what real users actually *do* find confusing.
I find this a very useful distinction!
In this particular case, the RM reference is really very clear, and since
we changed this particular message, we (so far) have not had anyone be
mystefied by this particular message.
Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-02-12 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-01-26 0:00 Question about base types Matthew Heaney
1997-01-27 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-01-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-01-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-01-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-01-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-01-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
[not found] ` <EACHUS.97Feb3221558@spectre.mitre.org>
[not found] ` <dewar.855063927@merv>
[not found] ` <EACHUS.97Feb6145918@spectre.mitre.org>
[not found] ` <dewar.855276722@merv>
1997-02-07 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-02-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-10 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-02-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <32FB45D4.2160@watson.ibm.com>
1997-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-02-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-02-11 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-01-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-01-28 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-01-29 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-01-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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