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From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Manx 5.0 Info Wanted
Message-ID: <9798@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 23 Feb 90 17:03:17 GMT
References: <7874@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> <25e344f5:1011.1comp.sys.amiga.tech;1@tronsbox.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <25e344f5:1011.1comp.sys.amiga.tech;1@tronsbox.UUCP> tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM) writes:
>>Author: [John Lindwall]
>>  Subj: Manx 5.0 Info Wanted
>>  Keyw: 
>>I sure hope they added the Arexx ports... seems to be a requirement for new
>>software in my mind.  Do the Lattice compiler/debugger have Arexx ports?
>
>The lattice CodeProde SBS has a Arexx port -- 
>
>The Compiler ???? Why a Arexx port in a compiler?

Why?  Why not?  Wouldn't it be nice if the compiler could talk intimately
to your ARexx-compatible editor?  You could have the editor command the
compiler to compile (from memory, even), and when the compiler found an
error, it could cooperate to display error messages and other help in
your editor's screen, allow you to make changes in the editor (like fixing
semicolons, whatever), and continuing to compile incrementally.

You could also make a bunch of error messages "smarter".  For example,
the warning "line 400: no reference to variable foo" may encourage
you to delete the declaration of foo, but line 400 is presumably the
end of the function, and foo was probably declared at the beginning.

The basic thing with ARexx is let your imagination run wild...
>
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