From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,67ca96c42837a9ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Steve Whalen Subject: Re: Getting GNAT to issue ARM error messages Date: 1999/02/17 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 445285553 Sender: swhalen@netcom.netcom.com References: <79oj1f$e8p$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <1999Feb10.073547.1@eisner> <7a1a9i$2kq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36C47579.3D0CAFCB@averstar.com> <7a490k$snr$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <7a5b71$d25$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7a7aat$mse$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <7a86hj$ka1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36C9C0BC.EA9C114E@lmco.com> Organization: ? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: steve quinlan 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 -- {===--------------------------------------------------------------===} Steve Whalen swhalen@netcom.com {===--------------------------------------------------------------===}