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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,24a59fbc07128ff8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-08 06:25:24 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!opentransit.net!wanadoo.fr!isdnet!psinet-france!psiuk-f4!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: RE: rename missing in Text_IO Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 09:16:49 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9d8rk2$sgg$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <9d6rbl$6vs$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 989327810 29200 136.170.200.133 (8 May 2001 13:16:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 May 2001 13:16:50 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7317 Date: 2001-05-08T13:16:50+00:00 List-Id: Since the discussion started concerning Win32ada simply having way too many types and way too much C-ish feeling to the parameter lists, etc., my original idea was to put a relatively simple layer on top of Win32ada. Just enough so that when a string was called for, you used an Ada string - not some 2nd or 3rd layer subtype of a pointer to a char - or other equally unfriendly examples. I wouldn't want to consolidate multiple calls into single calls or significantly change anything about the interface - so far as it could be avoided. Just Ada-ize what one sees when one uses the Win32api. (Some compromises are in order - you'd want to change all the numeric return statuses into something more Ada-ish like enumerations. Again, its a question of where does one stop?) To that end, I'd think that Claw exceeds the spec. Claw is a perfectly fine tool and one might be quite happy to develop on top of it. I'd think that there would remain times when one would simply want to get at a single Win32api call without any other layers of abstraction beyond making the thing not quite so agonizing to use from an Ada perspective. Claw may be a better answer for overall development, but I was kind of thinking along the lines of something that would be freely available as a blanket over the Win32ada binding. Sort of a "binding to a binding". (Now we could start the GPL vs LGPL vs GMGPL debate along a whole new thread! :-) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ wrote in message news:mLKJ6.43239$Jh5.41288199@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com... > >Where do you want to draw the line and say "This far and no farther?" > Perhaps Claw defines what's beyond the line?