Re: Ada.Command_Line.Argument_Count question

[John McCabe <john@nospam.assen.demon.co.uk>]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:16:15 -0400, Robert A Duff
<bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:

>>>> Does Argument_Count() return 3 or 4? I haven't looked at this
>>>> paragraph in detail, or what surrounds it, but "the number of
>>>> arguments passed to the program invoking the function" sounds a bit
>>>> vague. Is the "program invoking the function" the shell, or the
>>>> program you're running?

>>>3.

>>>The program you're running.

>> For all implementations?

>For all reasonable implementations.  It is possible to create a
>conforming Ada implementation that does something weird, because
>the RM leaves all this implementation-defined.  It has to, because
>we can't know about all operating systems.

Really? Surely the language here is providing a layer of abstraction
from the operating system so it should be able to be definitive about
whether the program name should be included in the argument count or
the list of arguments in Ada.Command_Line?