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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: GNAT GPL is not shareware
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:51:02 -0500
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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:

> Le 13/01/2015 00:49, Randy Brukardt a écrit :
>> A true semantic interface would talk about semantic entities only, the 
>> associated syntax would not enter into it.
>
> That would be a semantic ONLY interface, but syntax is also useful for
> some tools (especially coding rules checkers ;-) ).

Right, you can't very well have a semantic interface without syntax
to hang it off of.

> For example, checking that "end" mentions the entity name is 100%
> syntactic...

True.  But I'd prefer 'gnatpp', which doesn't "check" that, it just
sticks in the missing name for you -- similar idea.  Anyway, gnatpp is
primarily syntactic.  Not entirely -- it knows how to capitalize usage
names to match the declaration, which requires semantic information.

- Bob