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,e250826c4638fa0c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: How compiler finds files ? Date: 1998/02/04 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 322047146 References: <34D83BB5.4992@xperts.hu> X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.nyu.edu X-Trace: news.nyu.edu 886613616 16282 (None) 128.122.140.58 Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: guest@xpert.gu asks <<: I'm working on an Ada parser, which has to do package-name resolution. : As far as I know, there is no standard way of that. However, I want to : make my parser to be as generic as possible, and be able to work in many : environments. I collect this information to obtain an view of today's : Ada environments. >> Wouldn't it make more sense to investigate ASIS as the environment for solving your problem. It sounds like you are trying to recreate a substantial part of an Ada compiler. Why bother? When you can use the capabilities of an existing compiler via the ASIS interface.