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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,571930b4ff0bc1ee X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-30 22:22:02 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!pogner.demon.co.uk!zap!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Compile time executed functions Date: 29 Mar 2001 20:48:14 +0100 Organization: CodeFella Message-ID: References: <3AC03CCE.70E3C2D5@mida.se> <3AC18DD1.EF25CE42@mida.se> <5mzw6.415$1H6.72722473@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com> <3AC2EB17.33AAEC0A@mida.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 986019599 nnrp-09:7919 NO-IDENT pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Mar 2001 19:48:14 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6286 Date: 2001-03-29T19:48:14+00:00 List-Id: "Ken Garlington" writes: > It's the part about "pasting the output" that seems odd. Why not > have it generate a stand-alone Ada *package* (e.g, BlahBlah)? We do > this now in a number of cases. In fact, you can have an automated > build script that generates the code, updates the CM system with it, > then does the things you usually expect in such a script (extract > source from CM system, compile, link...) The part that worries me about that is the 'updates the CM system with it'. I can see that there _are_ arguments, it's just that I've also seen projects keep the generated code in the CM system *and then modify it by hand*.