Re: ANN: Ada source code decorator

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org> writes:

> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
>
>> Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:
>>
>>>   (* XML      - time permitting, using Simon Wright's ASIS based GIs.)
>>
>> Although that work was useful, a lot more needs to be done on it to
>> make it anywhere near complete. It would be a lot easier if ASIS
>> (the standard) was open-source.
>
> The ASIS _standard_ is open-source; it consists of Ada specs giving
> the API.
>
> The GNAT implementation is also open-source.
>
> So what is missing?

Something to make it clear what the actual structure is. I found it
very hard indeed to understand what the API was trying to tell me; for
example, a qualified name a.b.c is stored in something like

  (a (b (c)))

which you can understand a compiler using, rather than

  <name>
      <component>a</component>
      <component>b</component>
      <component>c</component>
   </name>

and asis2xml would _definitely_ produce the latter (I forget whether
it actually does at this stage).