From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org>
Subject: Re: basic basic ada question
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:54:23 GMT
Date: 2006-10-20T04:54:23+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EYZg.1028891$084.36379@attbi_s22> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4537bc65_1@newsfeed.slurp.net>
James Alan Farrell wrote:
>
> 2. There does not seem to be an argument(0). It appears to be the case
> you cannot reference the name used to call the program.
Ada.Command_Line.Command_Name serves this purpose.
> 4. All parameters are stored in arrays of 1024 characters, which is
> innefficient. It would be possible to declare a string access type and
> allocate a string on the heap for each parameter. (Mostly I've used Ada
> in safety critical environments where that is considered bad form.) But
> if you do this the need for the record goes away because you can then
> use the 'length attribute to write out the argument.
>
> I don't think it is possible to have different length strings holding
> the arrays without using accesses and dynamic allocations (someone
> correct me if I'm wrong).
Use of Ada.Strings.[Un]Bounded would be preferable to reinventing this
wheel.
--
Jeff Carter
"I fart in your general direction."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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2006-10-19 14:30 basic basic ada question markww
2006-10-19 14:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-10-19 15:10 ` markww
2006-10-21 10:29 ` Stephen Leake
2006-10-19 15:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-19 15:45 ` markww
2006-10-19 16:29 ` Gautier
2006-10-19 17:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-19 20:07 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-10-19 22:20 ` Robert A Duff
2006-10-20 5:10 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-10-20 7:13 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-10-20 20:39 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-10-20 7:25 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-10-20 20:54 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-10-19 21:30 ` James Alan Farrell
2006-10-19 23:03 ` Robert A Duff
2006-10-20 4:54 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2006-10-20 7:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-20 8:17 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-10-20 9:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-20 11:15 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-10-20 12:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-20 12:38 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-10-20 13:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-20 15:29 ` Robert A Duff
2006-10-20 17:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-20 20:59 ` Robert A Duff
2006-10-21 13:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-21 17:53 ` Robert A Duff
2006-10-22 8:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-23 7:45 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-10-23 9:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-23 14:30 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-10-23 15:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-23 15:49 ` Robert A Duff
2006-10-24 7:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-20 19:04 ` Simon Wright
2006-10-20 15:27 ` Robert A Duff
2006-10-20 17:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-20 21:00 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-10-21 8:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-21 17:32 ` Robert A Duff
2006-10-22 8:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-30 11:46 ` Martin Krischik
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