From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: GNAT documentation question
Date: 29 Jul 2002 04:01:19 -0700
Date: 2002-07-29T11:01:19+00:00 [thread overview]
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message news:<wcc3cu3ikab.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>...
> dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:
> I was always against having Annex M in the first place, and against any
> form of documentation requirements, so it might be the case that I was
> (therefore) sloppy. (I am very much in favor of good documentation -- I
> just don't think an International Standard is the way to go about it.)
I think it's fine to have them there if you regard them as having the same
status as implementation advice, which is what happens in practice.
The idea that they ar eformal normative requirements is of course ludicrous
given the complete absence of a formal definition of what documentation means!
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-26 4:30 GNAT documentation question Grein, Christoph
2002-07-26 16:37 ` James Squire
2002-07-28 19:09 ` Robert Dewar
2002-07-28 22:01 ` Robert A Duff
2002-07-29 11:01 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2002-08-13 22:15 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-13 23:59 ` Robert A Duff
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2002-07-25 21:23 James Squire
2002-07-26 16:18 ` Mark Johnson
2002-07-28 18:28 ` Robert Dewar
2002-07-29 17:53 ` Mark Johnson
2002-07-29 19:12 ` Simon Wright
2002-07-30 19:23 ` Mark Johnson
2002-07-30 4:18 ` Robert Dewar
2002-07-30 19:01 ` Simon Wright
2002-07-30 20:36 ` Robert A Duff
2002-07-30 4:21 ` Robert Dewar
2002-07-30 1:31 ` James Squire
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1997-10-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-10-08 0:00 ` Kenneth W. Sodemann
1997-10-09 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1997-10-09 0:00 ` Robert S. White
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