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Subject: Re: Directory listings and path names
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In article <6Kh38.35040$YM1.1631665254@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>, tmoran@acm.org writes:
>>Perhaps a good compromise would be for all the Ada
>>vendors to support the Florist POSIX bindings,
>   Do people prefer the POSIX directory iterator style
>     generic
>       with procedure Action(...)
>     procedure For_Each(Wild_Card_Name_String : in String;...)
> that iterates through the directory calling Action on each file, or
> do people prefer the IO-ish
>   procedure Open
>   procedure Get_Next
>   procedure Close

I find the second style better when I am doing uncommon things,
such as looking for all files of which there are fewer than 3
versions.