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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7db5fb0599fd4b76 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!nsnmrro1-lo.nuria.telefonica-data.net!nsnmpen1-lo.nuria.telefonica-data.net!news.ya.com!yacom!not-for-mail From: "Manuel G. R." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Character'First, ASCII.NUL and others (Was: Re: TCP/IP Sockets with GNAT.Sockets) Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 22:59:07 +0200 Organization: ya.com internet factory Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 62-151-47-63.yaonline.ya.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.ya.com 1115672348 13884 62.151.47.63 (9 May 2005 20:59:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@ya.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 20:59:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: es-es, es, en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10982 Date: 2005-05-09T22:59:07+02:00 List-Id: 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. -- Ada programming tutorial: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Ada Tutorial de programaci�n en Ada: http://es.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programaci%C3%B3n_en_Ada