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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,53cc6213b7c51882,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-17 11:04:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!peernews3.colt.net!colt.net!diablo.theplanet.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Subject: A standardized pathnames package for Ada 2005? From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:04:36 +0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.195.52.70 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk 1040151886 80.195.52.70 (Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:04:46 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:04:46 GMT Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31974 Date: 2002-12-17T19:04:36+00:00 List-Id: Is there any work on / interest in a package to make it easy to synthesize and analyze compound (path) names? This crops up a lot, not only as Windows or Unix filenames, but with things like Tcl widget names. It might usefully be generic, on parameters such as the max. length of a nodename, the max. length of the full pathname, the nodename separator, whether there is a distinguished root nodename and its separator, etc. Should it handle little-endian pathnames, with the root at the right, like Internet domain names? -- Bill-Findlay chez blue-yonder.co.uk ("-" => "")