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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 20:12:01 -0600
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"Markus E Leypold"
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> I wouldn't want to use Ada as an interactive command language.

Well, I would. Down with all non-Ada syntaxes!! ;-)

Seriously, we did in fact design an Ada command language for our debugger.
It works quite well. (I think others have done similar things.) Of course,
it's neither full Ada and it allows leaving out "noise" characters. And I
believe we required one statement per line (that allows a lot more
abbreviations). You can type:

   Step_Line (Count => 20);

or

   sl 20
(abbreviated command name; unneeded parens and semicolon omitted)
Of course, if something is ambiguous, you have to use a longer form.

We originally did this because we wanted the macro language for the debugger
to be as close to Ada as possible - that makes the macros readable and
maintanable. Usually, you use shorter forms from the command line (typing
too much is awful).

                            Randy.