Re: win32ada design question/problem

[dennison@telepath.com]

In article <3654a7f3.11586041@news.pacbell.net>,
  tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) wrote:
> >But there *has* to be a binding at this level somewhere! It might not be
> >directly called by most users, but it still has to be there.
> Clearly.  But also clearly such 'dirty work' should be encapsulated
> inside a pretty, understandable, robust, etc box.
>

That I can agree with. The dirty work should be buried somewhere and given a
nice safe (hopefully fully-functional) interface. That's the first thing I do
when I have to make OS calls. I don't use Win32 Ada at the moment, but if I
did I'd probably just make my own high-level packages for the routines I
need, and paste the relevent Win32 bindings into the package bodies. I did
exactly that with the DDE functionality a few years ago.

If I'm not unique in that respect, perhaps it would be a good idea to set up a
place to accumulate everyone's high-level bindings. Something more ambitious
could be setup later. Simply making them available so there isn't a horrible
amount of duplication going on would be a worthy effort.

I'd consider contributing, but I don't use Win32, and I won't as long as I
can't legaly do it.

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T.E.D.

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