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,e219d94b946dfc26 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.germany.com!news.tu-darmstadt.de!newsfeed.hanau.net!noris.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <45dcaed8_6@news.bluewin.ch> <1172132169.423514.271890@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <1172257457.802242.307050@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> <1172259022.144832.81680@8g2000cwh.googlegroups.com> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:46:49 +0100 Message-ID: <1toze95vp4rv9.1xlisxuu11sry$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Feb 2007 20:46:34 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: fa94164b.newsspool1.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=_7PRhXbmH`]f8j24CD<3lPic==]BZ:af^4Fo<]lROoRQFl8W>\BH3YR^8KKO5n_BHYDNcfSJ;bb[UIRnRBaCdUI9141]I3Z0de8R_SgLRX X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9472 Date: 2007-02-23T20:46:34+01:00 List-Id: On 23 Feb 2007 11:30:22 -0800, Adam Beneschan wrote: > But as has been said several times before, the OS could have provided > a service that could have been called iteratively to return the file > names, one at a time. That's how VMS does it. This arrangement would > solve both the problems you mention above---keeping the applications > small and simple, and allowing for new types of wildcards without > having to change the application. Even better it would be an OO (ADT) OS. The parameter of the application is either a character string (command line) or a container of files (or other objects). It cannot be both as in Unix, else it is a mess. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de