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Subject: Re: Ada and Exuberant CTags
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:23:00 +0200
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Le Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:07:21 +0200, Yannick Duch=C3=AAne (Hibou57)  =

<yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> a =C3=A9crit:

> Le Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:44:37 +0200, R. Tyler Croy <tyler@linux.com> a =
 =

> =C3=A9crit:
>>>> <https://github.com/rtyler/ctags>
> What specification or reference did you used for Ada tag kinds code ?
As a quick overview. I understood you used something originally made for=
  =

VIM:
http://gnuada.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gnuada/tags/ctags-ada-mode-4.3.=
11/ada.c?revision=3D977&view=3Dmarkup
This use the exact same tag kinds as yours

But the reference says:
http://ctags.sourceforge.net/FORMAT
> Note that these are mostly for C and C++.  Whentags programs are writt=
en  =

> for other languages,this list should be extended to include the used =

> field names.

*should be extended* This is very important to underline. Here, the ctag=
s  =

for Ada used by VIM happily overwrite every thing. They did not follow t=
he  =

CTags reference.

Interestingly, I could find some one else, who tried to follow the CTags=
  =

standard, and cleanly mapped Ada semantic to these, without any dangerou=
s  =

overwriting:
http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Ada/comp.lang.ada/2004-08/0108.html
To come back to a previous example, he, used 'f' for function and  =

procedure.

That's a mess, there seems to be no respect for standard at all. Famous =
 =

people don't follow the standard, and the one who followed the standard,=
  =

is an unknown guy and has probably no influence.


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