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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Running a preprocessor from GPS?
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 14:14:32 -0700
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On 07/27/2015 01:26 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "EGarrulo" <egarrulo@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:e610ca1e-4df6-4fbb-b3a1-ac35694d9072@googlegroups.com...
>> I would like to add logging statements to my units.  By using 
>> GNATColl.Traces, I could add lines like this one:
>>
>> if Active (Me) then
>>   Trace (Me, "Performing Step " & Step(...));
>> end if;
>>
>> However, this is too verbose.
> 
> Why? That's how it's done in Ada. The Janus/Ada compiler has literally 
> thousands of trace messages like the above (we have a fancy menu system to 
> turn them on and off on the fly in test versions of the compiler), and I 
> don't think that they have much impact on readability.
> 
> Besides, if you're going to be writing Ada, you're going to be writing code 
> that's more verbose (in many ways) than C-family languages. It might take 
> some getting used to, but there is no time better than the present to 
> getting used to that.

Also, if the OP really thinks he has to replace those 3 lines with 1 line, he
can define

procedure Checked_Trace (Me : in Whatever; Message : in String);

to do so.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?"
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