Re: FAQ and string functions

[Oleg Goodyckov <og@videoproject.kiev.ua>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:04:38AM +0200, Dmitry A.Kazakov wrote:
> Oleg Goodyckov wrote:
> 
> > If we look at that Ada program carefully, we'll see, that half of it takes
> > subprogram Get_Next_Word. What it does? It's clear from name - it parses
> > next word from line. How it is done in Perl program? Simple - by splitting
> > of line on words by space as delimiter. So, while on Ada we must make
> > slice, "Array_Name(5..8)", loop, if, and other very important stuff, in
> > Perl we say @list=split(/ /,String) and that's all.  Is this Perl's own
> > especiality? No. It can be realized in Ada. And I say more - without this
> > Ada will never be convinient language.
> 
> For which use? I would definitely not use something like split for parsing. 
> It is extremely inefficient. Ada was not designed for write-once-use-once 
> programs.

Ok! How about write-once-use-always? For text data analyze applications.

> > While for splitting string like
> > "x=2*3" people will must be to write program enstead split("=","x=2*3"),
> > people will write in Perl, not Ada.
> 
> And what would you do in the case "x=/* An error, should be := */ 2*" and 
> "3" continues on the next line?

Nothing. I know: I have data as described. If no - data is corrupted and must
be throwed out. It's simple.
But what would you do in the case, when data is correct yet?
You'll build PROGRAMMMM, instead write "split(/=/,"x=2*3")".