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: 103376,2ca464c92c72e0e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ray Blaak Subject: Re: Ada grammar Date: 2000/05/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 622619072 Sender: blaak@LANGLEY References: <07a73f60.478cecce@usw-ex0102-015.remarq.com> <8euivq$qso$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <004d942d.2e326cd2@usw-ex0104-026.remarq.com> <3919D285.E046DC9F@acenet.com.au> <391B6BC1.5F9A0982@acenet.com.au> X-Complaints-To: news@bctel.net X-Trace: news.bc.tac.net 958150239 209.53.149.68 (Fri, 12 May 2000 09:50:39 PDT) Organization: The Transcend NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 09:50:39 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Geoff Bull writes: > I don't see how you can extend this experience to reject the use > of ASIS out of hand. ASIS was specifically designed for tools > such as the originally poster had in mind. It is not that I am rejecting ASIS so much as defending the position that writing a custom parser is not unreasonable, especially for a tool that already has parse engines for other languages and wants to add a new language parser with minimal impact. I actually like the idea of ASIS. My knowledge of it is about 8 years out of date though. Some questions: 01. What is the interface to it? I was understanding it was a collection of Ada packages. Are there foreign-language bindings to it? I am guessing, for example that the original poster's reverse engineering tool is not written in Ada. 02. Is perfect source reconstruction possible? At the Tri-Ada'92 session I attended, this was still an eventual goal. -- Cheers, The Rhythm is around me, The Rhythm has control. Ray Blaak The Rhythm is inside me, blaak@infomatch.com The Rhythm has my soul.