From: Steve Whalen <swhalen@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Getting GNAT to issue ARM error messages
Date: 1999/02/17
Date: 1999-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <swhalenF7Aqoy.ELJ@netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36C9C0BC.EA9C114E@lmco.com
steve quinlan <steven.quinlan@lmco.com> wrote:
: You will never change Robert's mind on this. To my mind the flaw is in
: thinking that a bunch of Ada experts can determine whether in any given case
: users (which users?) would find RM references useful. I don't think they can
: reliably.
[snip]
: change his mind, the fact that overwhelmingly users want this seems like it
: should move ACT to be more responsive. But they know best what we need to
: correct our errors. (;-)
[snip]
The "fact" that "... overwhelmingly users want this ..."? Speak for
yourself.
One major reason I would NOT want RM references or other annotations
on every error message, is that 80%+ of the time, I just need a brief
reminder of what it was that I did that was stupid, or inattentive.
Extra verbage would just distract me and slow me down.
When I _do_ need help understanding where I did something more
seriously wrong, I'd want more than an RM reference.
What I'd _wish_ for, is to have the compiler display a carefully
researched reference to the _best_ place to learn more about whatever
I've gotten wrong.
So if the best description of how to do "whatever I'm confused about"
is in Prof. Feldman's Ada95 book in chapter XX, I'd _like_ to see a
pointer to that book and chapter, or to the Ada83 RM, or a web page,
etc.
Since what I want does NOT exist, I'm not going to complain about it
until I'm willing to do (or fund) the work myself.
Steve
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-08 0:00 Getting GNAT to issue ARM error messages David Peterson
1999-02-09 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-10 0:00 ` David Peterson
1999-02-10 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-12 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-12 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-13 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-14 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-14 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-15 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-15 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-02-16 0:00 ` steve quinlan
1999-02-17 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-17 0:00 ` steve quinlan
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Steve Whalen [this message]
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-02-18 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18 0:00 ` David Brown
1999-02-15 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-16 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Alexy V Khrabrov
1999-02-14 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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