Re: Character'First, ASCII.NUL and others (Was: Re: TCP/IP Sockets with GNAT.Sockets)

["Manuel G. R." <mgrojo@ya.com>]

Frank Beard wrote:
> The ASCII package became one of the "Obsolescent Features" before the 
> ASCII standard was expanded from 128 to 256 characters.  Even if it 
> didn't expand, it would probably never be gone from the Ada standard, 
> for backward compatibility reasons.  The only risk would be trying to go 
> beyond character'pos = 127.
>  
> Now that the ASCII standard is expanded, there's probably no reason not 
> to use it.  But, if you're worried about it you can just do the rename 
> as*/ /*Adrien pointed out in his reply.
>  

ASCII is a 7 bit character set and never was expanded to 256 characters. 
You are probably refering to one of its supersets, e.g. Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859

But I think you are right, ASCII package should never leave the standard.

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