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: 103376,24a59fbc07128ff8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-11 21:03:52 PST Path: archiver1.sj.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!chcgil2-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newspump.sol.net!homer.alpha.net!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <9d6ahn$157$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: RE: rename missing in Text_IO X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3719.2500 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 23:04:32 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 156.46.62.124 X-Complaints-To: abuse@alpha.net X-Trace: homer.alpha.net 989640226 156.46.62.124 (Fri, 11 May 2001 23:03:46 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 23:03:46 CDT Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7416 Date: 2001-05-11T23:04:32-05:00 List-Id: In article <9d6ahn$157$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says... >Every time I have to dip into the Win32ada interfaces to get at Windoze, I >wish I had an ever-so-slightly thicker binding that simply had its own >parameter passing and data typing and all that so I don't have to deal with >all the long chains of types & subtypes and ridiculous parameters that the C R.R.'s Win32 bindings (which predate Win32Ada) were designed exactly that way, and for exactly that reason. There even was a project to create a public version of them ("just thick enough" - named "MAWB" for Medium Ada Windows Binding), but that ended up going nowhere when people adopted Win32Ada instead. We ended up stopping development on it in favor of a thicker binding (which now is Claw). (Claw includes lots of stuff outside of pure GUI functions, including sockets, registry operations [including common-high-level operations such as registering a file extension], and directory operations. Randy. (P.S. I posted this message last week, but I don't think it ever got posted. Apologies to anyone that sees it twice.)