Re: Case dependence and coding standards

[Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>]

Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:

> (snip stuff about case errors)
> 
> It would be nicer to have a compiler that simply corrected such errors
> in the source file, instead of complaining about them.  The goal is to
> make consistent/readable code, not to punish programmers who are too
> lazy to hit the shift key.

That's what compilers integrated into IDE's are for. For GNAT under
Emacs or GPS, when the compiler complains about a case mismatch, you
hit a key, and the editor fixes it (it reads the compiler's error
message to know what to do).

Sometimes, of course, it's the defining instance that's wrong, so the
compiler error message contains info on where that is, so you can get
to it easily.

In my Emacs, F6 is bound to 'next-error', and C-F6 to 'gnat-fix-error'.
It's amazing how many times I just hit F6, C-F6 to get thru all the
error messages. Kind of fun :).

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-- Stephe