Re: Textedit and txt

[Anh Vo <anhvofrcaus@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 12:25:49 PM UTC-7, Laurent wrote:
> On Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 1:35:52 AM UTC+2, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
> > Well, either we'd modify the existing packages (which would be very 
> > incompatible, so it would never happen), or we'd have to add new ones. In 
> > the later case, there would be a lot of opposition because we'd be 
> > duplicating functionality. If it happened, it would happen because of adding 
> > something like Root_String'Class to the language; then we'd need packages on 
> > that type and those would necessarily be new. But I'm not expecting much 
> > happening on that.
> > 
> >                                    Randy.
> 
> I can understand that for compatibility reasons there will be no new package. But on the other side
> at a certain point one has to go forward and leave some old things behind. (Apple is a great fan of that. One of the new MacBook Air models has only one USB C connection). Otherwise we would still be using computers based on vacuum tubes or programmed with punch cards or running on DOS.
> 
Another option is that users create new package. It will not take long to do it.

Anh Vo