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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5bcc293dc5642650 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.68.27.230 with SMTP id w6mr2524148pbg.3.1318939236208; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:00:36 -0700 (PDT) Path: d5ni26843pbc.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder.news-service.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why no Ada.Wide_Directories? Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:01:05 +0200 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <1hxf5bvnrhfw4$.28i3sd8wtqo2$.dlg@40tude.net> References: <9937871.172.1318575525468.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prib32> <418b8140-fafb-442f-b91c-e22cc47f8adb@y22g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <7156122c-b63f-487e-ad1b-0edcc6694a7a@u10g2000prl.googlegroups.com> <409c81ab-bd54-493b-beb4-a0cca99ec306@p27g2000prp.googlegroups.com> <58a8ef13-4b67-4548-b20e-469991e445d8@h23g2000pra.googlegroups.com> <1lrze4c2jrsgm$.rhtmievd2xga$.dlg@40tude.net> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: FbOMkhMtVLVmu7IwBnt1tw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:14045 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2011-10-18T14:01:05+02:00 List-Id: On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:06:17 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote: > Le Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:00:00 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov > a �crit: >> No need to replace anything, just fix the type system. It should be capable >> to have String a subtype of Wide_Wide_String, which is already Unicode. > So you, you are dreaming of an universal_string type ? ;) No, rather a cloud of string types with different implementations and same interface. The problem is that types which are semantically same: String Wide_String Wide_Wide_String Unbounded_String ... are not same in the language. Adding UTF-8, UTF-16 etc would multiply that already grotesque mess. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de