Re: Escape Sequences in Strings

[Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org>]

John English wrote:

> 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!

Good point. Sometimes we tend to "over answer" a question, possibly leading
a newbie to believe that Ada is just too complicated to do what they want.
With the original question, I thought the best thing was to explain how to
do what the questioner wanted to do - use escape codes in a string.
Presumably, if he learns this much, Ada is now useful to him. As he moves
along with learning the language, it will probably become clear that there
are better ways of structuring code to manipulate the cursor. Possibly, he
was already in the process of building such a package and just wanted to
know how to implement the low-level features? (Even in C++, you'd isolate
this kind of thing at a low level - or learn rather quickly that you
*should* have! :-)

Let's keep the life of a newbie comfortable and possibly just suggest that
there *are* better ways and wait to see if they ask...

MDC
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