From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,47bc849aad30d586 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-29 11:09:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed Date: 29 May 2002 11:09:08 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0205291009.7f23e69b@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.109.83.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1022695748 20902 127.0.0.1 (29 May 2002 18:09:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 May 2002 18:09:08 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24950 Date: 2002-05-29T18:09:08+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:... > Here's just a thought: The Grace components has the aim of creating a Map > component. Assuming you can get serialization out of a Map component via > 'Read, 'Write, 'Input & 'Output, it would be the natural data structure on > which to build an INI file. If not Grace, perhaps some other package would Doing that would not produce human-readable output (unless that human is handy with "od" anyway :-) ). If having initialization files human-readable and editable is a goal, then you would not want to use stream attributes. > Assuming we get a Grace component to do this, it might even make a nice > extension to the Grace library - a descendent of Maps that handles > initialization work? Well...OpenToken was initially developed from a configuration file reader. To my knowledge, that's still what it is most often used for. -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html