Re: Ideas for Ada 200X

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

I think a standard Ada sockets package would be A Good Thing. So would 
something like an XML parser be a good thing. (Make it use the OO 
features Ada has so that it closely matches the XML standard. This is 
the only thing I don't like about the XMLAda package currently floating 
about - it uses discriminated records instead of tagged records, which 
would be the natural way to express what is in the XML standard.)

This is another case where having some sort of Conventional Ada Library 
external of the standard would be A Good Thing. Get things like this 
into the library quickly, gain some experience with use and when they 
stabilize discuss the possibility of including them into the standard.

MDC

chris.danx wrote:
> Preben Randhol wrote:
> 
>>
>> What about sockets?
> 
> 
> Yep, sockets!  Also what about XML parsing facilities and better unicode 
> support?  They'd just be nice, but sockets would be great.
> 


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