Re: avl tree - booch components

["David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

As shown in an earlier posting, the disabling of style checks
can be very specific and localized, so turning off style checks
for the RCS/CVS strings does not compromise warnings in general.

I use $Source which is even longer, with no problem.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: September 11, 2001 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: avl tree - booch components


Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

> Hmm. I agree it would be nice if you could have both CVS $Id$ and no
> warnings from the GNAT style check. However, given a choice between
> the two, I'll take the no warnings.

I will adopt a style like

--  $RCSfile: bc-containers-collections-ordered-bounded.ads,v $
--  $Revision: 1.5 $
--  $Date: 2001/09/11 05:29:27 $
--  $Author: simon $

(I don't _think_ the RCSfile is likely to break the limit)

> Do you ever actually read the output of CVS $Id$ ? What is it actually
> used for?

At a pinch I suppose RCSfile and Revision would be the minimum, but I
find the date very useful too especially when not connected to the
repository.

What file is this? what version? when did it last change? who changed
it? are all important. The last particularly so given multiple
users. I know it's all available from the repository (cvs status; cvs
log) but still ..

> Ignoring warnings in general is very bad practice, and it's too easy
> to go from "well, _this_ warning is ok" to "I checked all the warnings
> last week, I'll ignore them this time" to "just ignore the warnings".

How very true!
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