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: 103376,7624df5e57d09688 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-10 11:58:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: config files proposal Date: 10 Jun 2002 11:58:01 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0206101058.18930b41@posting.google.com> References: <3CFA8E42.B7844253@san.rr.com> <4519e058.0206030656.34c424ff@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1023735481 26113 127.0.0.1 (10 Jun 2002 18:58:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Jun 2002 18:58:01 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25691 Date: 2002-06-10T18:58:01+00:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote in message news:... > I'd like to have a general "binary data - not human editable" data > type. Maybe with an Ada Streams interface? An intersting idea. But if you have a separate data type for binary data, don't you open the door for other data types, eg: Float, Integer, Duration, Date/Time, etc? -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html