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From: "Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>
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Subject: RE: Ideas for Ada 200X
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XML has formalized multiline comments.
<annotation><documentation>....................</documentation></annotati=
on>

Therefore by analogy, one could create annotation and documentation =
types in
Ada. These could be implemented as bounded strings. This would permit =
the
compiler and tools like ASIS to have knowledge about the documentation. =
One
other approach, which I do not like, but must be included for =
completeness,
is to create a means to include XML blocks in Ada sources. This was done
with embedded SQL. A third approach is to create a hyperlink in the Ada
sources that points to sections of XML documents. And a fourth approach,
which I favor, is to recast the Ada sources into XML documents. This =
last
approach has the advantages of extending the number of editors that can =
be
used with Ada; permitting the addition of formatting elements, such as =
bold,
italics, and fonts; and not requiring any changes to the Ada standard.
Bob Leif

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank [mailto:franjoe@frisurf.no]=20
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 8:38 PM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org


What about the possibility of commenting several lines like /* ...... =
*/?

Frank


"Tony Gair" <tony_gair@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:6a90b886.0305262344.1d558079@posting.google.com...
> How about, since we know client server and the internet are here to
> stay, integrating the distributed annex into Ada.
>
> Perhaps Glade would not have so many problems with having two
> s-straat.adb files then.