Re: RE: rename missing in Text_IO

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <mLKJ6.43240$Jh5.41288728@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com>, tmoran@acm.org
says...
>  Perhaps "thick binding coordination" would fit nicely in the
>Ada Bindings Working Group?

I'd go for that. As I said, my main interest is in fobbing this job off on
someone else. :-)

>BTW, one of the major, but rarely mentioned, advantages of a thick
>binding is that someone else has tracked down the obscurities,
>ambiguities, MS doc errors, etc to find out what the various API
>calls actually do, and how they need to hang together.  The thinner

Likewise, one of the major, but rarely mentioned, advantages to *writing* a
thick binding is that you become quite well acquainted with the API in question.
:-)

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