Re: Learning Ada but missing the basics?

[Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>]

"Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com> writes:

> In this regard, gnat style switches are truly useful. I find I've
> added quite a few over time to my defaults.

We use -gnaty (in other words, the defaults!). It seemed to me to be
easier to do this than to have perpetual wrangles about which ones are
in, which ones out.

There was a complaint that the default line length (79) is too short,
but this was from a person who believed in long names:

  Message_Processing.Process_The_Message (The_Message_To_Be_Processed : String);

(and that's not the worst instance!)

This was the person who thought the way to get rid of style warnings
was to turn them off.

--S