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Subject: Re: ANN: Introducing AdaBase - Thick database bindings for Ada
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On Friday, May 13, 2016 at 9:37:16 PM UTC+1, jrmarino wrote:
[snip]
> --  John

John, firstly thanks for the effort put into this and I hope it isn't just =
yourself that finds this useful after all your effort.

I hope this doesn't sound too negative after that but I do find it quite an=
 "un-Ada"-ish binding. All languages come with their own look and feel, som=
e even enforced at compile-time and Ada is no exception but you don't seem =
to have followed standard Ada conventions (which GNAT can do a great job of=
 helping you enforce).

Two examples - firstly, words are encouraged to be separated by an undersco=
re; secondly, there is no need to add a common prefix to enumerates (and co=
nfusingly this is done for some enumeration types but not others).

If there is an Ada-look release, I'll come back and have another look at us=
ing it but not til then.
-- Martin