From: martin.dowie@btopenworld.com (Martin Dowie)
Subject: Re: Ada Configuration API for Unix and Windows
Date: 4 Dec 2002 05:09:29 -0800
Date: 2002-12-04T13:09:29+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <af783afe.0212040509.4c0d5871@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: usmxeu2vd.fsf@nasa.gov
Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote in message news:<usmxeu2vd.fsf@nasa.gov>...
> > I'm guessing but it could be to ensure the user has a second look and
> > doesn't
> > get their 'keys' and 'values' the wrong way round (as both would be
> > strings)...
>
> Hmph. That's what named association is for:
>
> Put (reg, Key => "A_Key", Value => "A Value");
Yes, but I still find some engineers who don't use it.
Presumably as it it more typing for their fingers!
Never mind the how useful the feature is. :-(
Perhaps this wasn't the reason, I was just guessing
after all.
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2002-12-03 16:47 Ada Configuration API for Unix and Windows Ulrich Eckhardt
2002-12-03 21:35 ` Stephen Leake
2002-12-03 22:29 ` Martin Dowie
2002-12-03 22:57 ` Stephen Leake
2002-12-04 13:09 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2002-12-04 9:27 ` Ulrich Eckhardt
2002-12-04 13:49 ` Stephen Leake
2002-12-04 14:20 ` Ulrich Eckhardt
2002-12-05 8:43 ` Victor Porton
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2002-12-05 6:10 Grein, Christoph
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