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: a07f3367d7,6e64435d2a7280f2
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: 
 g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail
From: John McCabe <john@nospam.assen.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line.Argument_Count question
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:09:21 +0100
Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID: <5i5fb5t1992bsm8qjfk02l21krs8fks6km@4ax.com>
References: <4ab00009$0$282$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
 <bgf4b5hng7ujjq28m5peanifnam33lbbsh@4ax.com>
 <2191b7e4-c09d-42fe-b446-1ca01e44c1ba@b18g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>
 <gl77b59ft50tcacacrf5d37m65ksl7idaq@4ax.com>
 <wccab0rq4pc.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: RXEkuaSUwmKe0XIGFYSK7A.user.aioe.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org
X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.0
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652
Cancel-Lock: sha1:6wIumyablRVL5n9m3QHY2zj5DSM=
Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8415
Date: 2009-09-21T16:09:21+01:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

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?