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 10.68.14.169 with SMTP id q9mr1277583pbc.2.1319113255661; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:20:55 -0700 (PDT) Path: d5ni35696pbc.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why no Ada.Wide_Directories? Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:21:16 +0200 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <1rlz5gwqmeizn$.fwqpl0mhzf54$.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> 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: news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18623 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2011-10-20T14:21:16+02:00 List-Id: On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:04:43 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote: > Le Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:37:57 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov > a �crit: > >> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:43:08 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote: >> >>> The only way to safely use a UTF-8 string is opaquely, which means you can >>> store it whole, but any operation on it is performed after decoding it. >>> That's of course the best argument for having it be a separate type. >> >> Yes. It is worth to remember that Ada once was considered a strongly >> typed language... > It still is!, the trouble is at library level, not language level. No, the troubles at the library level are reflections of language problems. The language ceased to evolve within its paradigm of a strongly typed language. Instead of addressing new issues from the stand point of typed approach, it tries solutions from the languages alien to its spirit. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de