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,d57302f2954365e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Question about base types Date: 1997/02/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 218250125 References: Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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