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=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,42b8b2c27439b7d0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: Re: obsolete ascii? (for language lawyers) Date: 1999/07/02 Message-ID: <7lih9i$ckb$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 496407939 References: <7las7v$5p0$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <7lhqs9$9c$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x35.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Jul 02 14:11:08 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1999-07-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7lhqs9$9c$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>, Peter Hermann 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. -- T.E.D. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.