From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Standard libraries (Was: Environment variables)
Date: 1996/11/14
Date: 1996-11-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.847974341@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 56do9g$1v5@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl
Geert says
"You could say the same of package Ada.Command_Line. The important point
is, IMHO, that a reasonable number of different platforms (Dos, Unix,
Windows, OS/2, Mac) which represent a significant share (90%?) of the
potential Ada users have this same problem. That is a good enough
reason to have some form of standard interface.
I do not say that this functionality (including Ada.Command_Line)
should be part of the standardized Ada language. Issues like these are
very well suited to less formal standardizing, like including extra
functionality in the GNAT standard libraries. These might perhaps be
separated from the Ada.* hierarchy in an Extra.* hierarchy."
Can you please explain why the approved IEEE POSIX-Ada binding, which has
this functionality, as well as all the other functionality you go on to
describe in your note, does not EXACTLY meet this requirement, in EXACTLY
the manner that you recommend?
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-30 0:00 Environment variables Christopher J Arnold
1996-10-30 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-11-01 0:00 ` David Shochat
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-13 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Standard libraries (Was: Environment variables) Geert Bosch
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-11-16 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-11-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-01 0:00 ` Environment variables Stephen Leake
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-11-01 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-01 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-05 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-10-30 0:00 ` David Taylor
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Doug Smith
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-31 0:00 ` James Rogers
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-06 0:00 ` David Wheeler
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Christopher J Arnold
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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