Re: Any Suggestion How To Accomplish A Debug Macro?

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>]

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> "Brad Moore" <brad.moore@shaw.ca> wrote in message 
> news:gCDow.832901$No4.618024@fx19.iad...
>> On 14-12-30 04:14 AM, Simon Wright wrote:
>>> Hubert <herrdoktor@fumanchu.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> I know there is no such thing as C #define's in Ada, but isn't there a
>>>> way to make some sort of debug macro?
>>>> In my C++ code I use a lot of statements like
>>>> 
>>>> PRINT(DEBUG_CHANNEL, "TEXT" );
>>>> 
>>>> to print out debug messages and in release code, these defines aren't
>>>> compiled. Is there any way to achieve something like this in Ada
>>>> without surrounding it with an IF statement and a boolean flag?
> 
> That's of course the Ada way. What's the point of avoiding the Ada way here? 
> Everything in Ada is more verbose than C -- some of us think that's the 
> advantage of Ada (more for readability than writability).

The Ada way has been built into the Eiffel
programming language: "debug" is a keyword
of Eiffel and it works much like "begin" 
starts a block in Ada. Eiffel's "debug" is
controlled by flag set at compile time, though.