From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada '83 X widget bindings
Date: 1998/04/10
Date: 1998-04-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1998Apr10.175420.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 352e40d5.0@news1.ibm.net
In article <352e40d5.0@news1.ibm.net>, vonhend@ibm.net writes:
> The fact that Ada 83 doesn't support function pointers doesn't mean that you
> can't use conventional Xt and Motif bindings. We use the Verdix-supplied bindings
> from the Free Software Foundation (originally developed by DEC) and they work just
> fine. We do have to instantiate an unfortunate number of unchecked conversion
> functions (something I personally don't like, as unchecked conversion defeats
> the purpose and value of strong type checking.)
Although theoretically strong type checking is important,
these bindings are for the purpose of accessing a whole
lot of code which does not use strong type checking, so
a little more around the edges isn't quite so bad.
Larry Kilgallen
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-09 0:00 Ada '83 X widget bindings Jack Ottofaro
1998-04-09 0:00 ` Thomas Hood
1998-04-10 0:00 ` vonhend
1998-04-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1998-04-11 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1998-04-22 0:00 ` Rex Reges
1998-04-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-04-17 0:00 ` Jean-Claude MAHIEUX
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