From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Why .ads as well as .adb?
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2019 22:37:48 +0100
Date: 2019-06-09T22:37:48+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lypnnm4ez7.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 561c766c-4f9c-432c-be9b-822dd9c3c8ba@googlegroups.com
John Perry <john.perry@usm.edu> writes:
> When I want to know how Ada.Text_IO works, I don't look up the
> specification file. I don't even know where to find Ada.Text_IO on my
> system. I just went to look for it, and gave up pretty quickly. I
> could probably find it if I tried hard enough, but it's far more
> convenient to visit [1], which has a hyperlink to Ada.Text_IO, as well
> as lots of other things.
>
> I imagine that [1] was generated by some software tool.
But not from an implementation. It's a reference manual, after all, a
specification, and it goes into much more detail than your example ...
> Similar tools exist for other languages. Take a look at [2] to see
> what a nice job they can do -- a LOT nicer than [1]. If I click on
> BINARY_SEARCH_TREE, not only do I get the specification for
> BINARY_SEARCH_TREE a la [1]
... well, I don't know Eiffel, so I can't really tell, but the first
thing I see is
description:
"Binary search trees; left child item is less than current item,
right child item is greater"
and I ask myself, does this mean that there can't be equal elements in
the tree?
> [1] http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rm/html/RM-TOC.html
This is the most up-to-date:
http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/rm12_w_tc1/html/RM-TOC.html
> [2] https://www.eiffel.org/files/doc/static/19.05/libraries/base/index.html
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2019-06-02 0:48 Why .ads as well as .adb? John Perry
2019-06-02 5:42 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-06-02 6:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-03 7:35 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-03 7:57 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-06-03 19:49 ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-04 8:03 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-03 8:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-03 19:51 ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-03 20:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-04 8:24 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-04 9:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-05 9:04 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-05 12:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-05 17:12 ` G. B.
2019-06-05 18:50 ` Optikos
2019-06-05 22:57 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-04 22:28 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-05 8:28 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-05 9:20 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-06-05 9:28 ` Paul Rubin
2019-06-05 10:11 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-05 12:58 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-05 14:28 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-06 7:34 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-06 19:51 ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-06 20:27 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-06-06 21:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-06 21:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-06 22:08 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-06-07 7:59 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-07 10:42 ` alby.gamper
2019-06-07 16:59 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-06-07 14:10 ` Brad Moore
2019-06-07 23:37 ` Paul Rubin
2019-06-08 1:16 ` Brad Moore
2019-06-08 7:34 ` Simon Wright
2019-06-08 17:44 ` G.B.
2019-06-08 21:41 ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-09 0:40 ` Paul Rubin
2019-06-09 18:56 ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-09 20:35 ` John Perry
2019-06-09 21:15 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-09 22:37 ` John Perry
2019-06-10 9:01 ` Simon Wright
2019-06-10 13:15 ` Simon Wright
2019-06-10 9:22 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-09 21:37 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2019-06-09 22:40 ` John Perry
2019-06-10 9:07 ` Simon Wright
2019-06-09 21:46 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-10 17:11 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-06-08 4:57 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-08 23:57 ` Optikos
2019-06-09 0:43 ` Paul Rubin
2019-06-10 8:17 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-10 19:10 ` G.B.
2019-06-10 22:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-11 0:32 ` Optikos
2019-06-11 15:39 ` Brad Moore
2019-06-11 16:14 ` John Perry
2019-06-11 16:46 ` Shark8
2019-06-11 19:29 ` John Perry
2019-06-14 6:12 ` Brad Moore
2019-06-14 21:51 ` John Perry
2019-06-14 16:29 ` djakoogler
2019-06-11 18:19 ` joakimds
2019-06-11 15:49 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-06-07 7:36 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-05 22:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-06 3:34 ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-06 7:29 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-06 15:30 ` John Perry
2019-06-06 15:41 ` Brad Moore
2019-06-06 19:42 ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-06 16:37 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-06-02 9:59 ` joakimds
2019-06-02 20:14 ` G.B.
2019-06-03 13:37 ` John Perry
2019-06-03 14:50 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-03 19:23 ` John Perry
2019-06-03 21:04 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-03 18:51 ` Lucretia
2019-06-03 19:32 ` John Perry
2019-06-03 17:00 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-06-03 18:59 ` Lucretia
2019-06-03 19:29 ` John Perry
2019-06-03 20:00 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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