From: John English <je@bton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Escape Sequences in Strings
Date: 2000/11/16
Date: 2000-11-16T11:25:46+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A13C41E.FCBDD34C@bton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8uump3$s3o$1@news.huji.ac.il
Ehud Lamm wrote:
> Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> news:8uub09$9sr$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> > In article <3A1275A2.F2A843E9@bton.ac.uk>,
> > John English <je@bton.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > Escape sequences are easy enough:
> > > Ada.Text_IO.Put(ASCII.ESC & "[2J"); -- clear the screen
> >
> >
> > But we would never want to do that in a program, and indeed
> > Ada here helps us avoid the nasty habit of embedding odd
> > escape sequences in strings in C without any comments, often
> > with a result of making the program non-portable. The proper
> > coding in Ada would be:
> >
> > Clear_Screen : constant String := ASCII.ESC & "[2J";
> > -- ANSI escape sequence for clearing screen. Modify to
> > -- meet requirements of your system.
> >
> > Put (Clear_Screen);
> >
> > It is almost always wrong to have mysterious constants in code!
> >
>
> And while you are at it, put the constant in a seperate packge of env.
> specific control codes.
>
> --
> Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il
> http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ehudlamm <== Me!
Hey guys, I agree completely, but I wanted to give a *short* answer,
not a complete package hierarchy with all the trimmings... and I
said it wasn't the way to go anyway... Give us a break!
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2000-11-15 0:00 Escape Sequences in Strings Jean Cohen
2000-11-15 0:00 ` John English
2000-11-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-15 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-11-16 0:00 ` John English [this message]
2000-11-16 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-11-16 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-16 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-11-16 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-11-16 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-11-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-11-16 0:00 ` Ada Streams usage (was Escape Sequences in Strings) Marc A. Criley
2000-11-16 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-11-16 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-16 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-11-16 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-16 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
[not found] ` <igh81t8b3hdrsc167do6qr0h1joa73c1jr@borpin.co.uk>
2000-11-18 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-11-18 0:00 ` David Kristola
2000-11-19 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-11-19 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-11-20 0:00 ` Brian Orpin
2000-11-20 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-11-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-19 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-11-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-20 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
2000-11-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-20 0:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2000-11-21 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-21 0:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2000-11-21 1:31 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-21 1:33 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-21 0:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2000-11-22 5:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-15 0:00 ` Escape Sequences in Strings Preben Randhol
2001-01-12 13:18 ` Andrew Hately
2001-01-12 20:03 ` Keith Thompson
2001-01-18 8:29 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2001-01-18 15:22 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-18 22:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2001-01-21 11:54 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-01-21 22:35 ` directly accessing DOS screen memory (was: Re: Escape Sequences in Strings) Jeffrey Carter
2001-01-12 19:37 ` Escape Sequences in Strings tmoran
2001-01-13 1:38 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-13 6:48 ` tmoran
2001-01-13 18:36 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-16 3:30 ` Examples in Docs, was " peter_richtmyer
2001-01-16 5:42 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-16 20:44 ` mark_lundquist
2001-01-16 22:43 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-01-17 15:06 ` mark_lundquist
2001-01-17 2:25 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-17 15:28 ` mark_lundquist
2001-01-17 16:20 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-17 18:04 ` Wayne Lydecker
2001-01-17 19:23 ` BSCrawford
2001-01-18 0:15 ` Jerry Petrey
2001-01-19 0:01 ` tmoran
2001-01-18 3:44 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-18 16:45 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-18 19:53 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-18 22:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-01-19 16:40 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-19 7:49 ` Learning methods Anders Wirzenius
2001-01-19 18:57 ` Examples in Docs, was Re: Escape Sequences in Strings mark_lundquist
2001-01-21 12:05 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-01-21 15:35 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-17 22:10 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2001-01-18 3:52 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-16 16:06 ` Examples in Docs Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2001-01-16 21:29 ` mark_lundquist
2001-01-18 0:50 ` Randy Brukardt
2001-01-18 16:46 ` mark_lundquist
2001-01-18 17:24 ` J. David Bryan
2001-01-17 2:43 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-17 21:17 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2001-01-16 20:01 ` Examples in Docs, was Re: Escape Sequences in Strings mark_lundquist
2001-01-17 10:59 ` Peter Richtmyer
2001-01-19 18:55 ` mark_lundquist
2001-01-20 14:24 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-20 14:36 ` Preben Randhol
2001-01-20 15:00 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-21 11:24 ` Preben Randhol
2001-01-22 14:47 ` Ted Dennison
2001-01-22 20:08 ` Preben Randhol
2001-01-22 20:14 ` Preben Randhol
2001-01-20 19:02 ` Stephen Leake
2001-01-20 19:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-01-21 11:35 ` Preben Randhol
2001-01-22 23:58 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-01-27 1:43 ` Increasing the readability of Ada was RE: Examples in Docs Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
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