From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: obsolete ascii? (for language lawyers)
Date: 1999/07/02
Date: 1999-07-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7lih9i$ckb$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7lhqs9$9c$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
In article <7lhqs9$9c$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>,
Peter Hermann <ica2ph@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> Thanks to John Herro, David C. Hoos, Sr., Ted Dennison.
> I am afraid I did not explain my question precisely enough.
> With Ada95 we have a quite better type character, but
> I can't see any reason why i should not have the possibility
> to directly write down e.g. the bel-character, the ff-character,
> the cr-character, the esc-character etc. etc. as a simple identifier,
> the comfort of which will be removed as soon as the
> 'obsolete' package ascii will be removed!
I'm not entirely sure I understand your problem. Latin_1 has all those
characters. Is it just that "Characters.Latin_1.BEL" takes up more
columns in your source file than "ASCII.BEL"? There are a number of easy
ways to fix that. If you want, you could even do the following:
package ASCII renames Characters.Latin_1;
..and you'd be able to write your code very much like you used to.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-29 0:00 obsolete ascii? (for language lawyers) Peter Hermann
1999-06-29 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-06-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-06-29 0:00 ` John Herro
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-03 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-07-08 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-07-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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