From: Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Calendar - leap seconds
Date: 19 Mar 2001 21:10:24 +0100
Date: 2001-03-19T20:07:05+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <863dc9cyfj.fsf@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcc8zm13jkx.fsf@world.std.com
Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> writes:
> [...] I find it annoying, for example, that if I want decimal-formatted
> integer, I can use 'Image, but if I want hexdecimal, I have to import
> Text_IO (or write my own). Hexadecimal formatting has nothing directly
> to do with I/O of character strings!
This could be fixed by having separate packages offering all non
IO/time services, and just renaming declarations inside the IO/time
packages. The last point (renaming) is just implementation, it could
be just left out of the standard and be put as a RM note, this is to
say it shouldn't put a significant burden on implementors (move code
and put a few renames) and should be 100% upward compatible for users.
--
Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-17 17:46 Calendar - leap seconds singlespeeder
2001-03-18 15:53 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-03-19 3:47 ` Nick Roberts
2001-03-19 14:43 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-19 20:10 ` Laurent Guerby [this message]
2001-03-20 10:26 ` Nick Roberts
2001-03-20 19:23 ` Laurent Guerby
2001-03-20 11:34 ` Joseph P Vlietstra
2001-03-20 13:08 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-03-31 14:07 ` Kent Paul Dolan
2001-04-01 11:57 ` Simon Wright
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