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-Thread: 103376,6bf1c4b845bd2160 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!ircam.fr!freenix!feeder.news.orange.fr!not-for-mail Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:11:39 +0200 From: Pascal Obry Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; fr-FR; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090605 Thunderbird/2.0.0.22 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What about a glob standard method in Ada.Command_Line ? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4c6f9837$0$5420$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Aug 2010 11:11:19 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 90.2.9.195 X-Trace: 1282381879 reader.news.orange.fr 5420 90.2.9.195:3459 X-Complaints-To: abuse@orange.fr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13570 Date: 2010-08-21T11:11:19+02:00 List-Id: Jean-Pierre, > 2) Make a good proposal, and make sure it is compiler independent, > system independent, powerful and easy to use. Then propose it to the > ARG, and the ARG will tell you why it doesn't work ;-) I see the argument but there is already some APIs that cannot be implemented in some OS (like Ada.Execution_Time.Timers on Win32 for example). That's not a reason to dismiss it. A glob support for Command_Line (in a child package) would be most welcomed even if not supported (or supported but with some slight differences) on some OS I would say. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net - http://v2p.fr.eu.org --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B