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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8c2209656cc44d38 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-26 07:57:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3BD96830.1FFA30AF@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> Subject: Re: Emacs and Ada. Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:56:29 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:56:29 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15253 Date: 2001-10-26T14:56:29+00:00 List-Id: In article <3BD96830.1FFA30AF@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>, Wes Groleau says... >And the best diagnostics come from GNAT, which does not >put in RM references usually (because they mean nothing >to newbies). Instead, they actually explain the problem. Often times a LRM reference wouldn't be particularly helpful to anyone. For example, if I misspell an identifier, I'd much rather have a message that says that the identifier isn't declared, and perhaps its a misspelling of this one over here that is declare, than a pointer to the section in the LRM that says I have to define things before I use them. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.