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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.66.144.98 with SMTP id sl2mr7426215pab.32.1431207363069; Sat, 09 May 2015 14:36:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.102.71 with SMTP id fm7mr80977igb.8.1431207363027; Sat, 09 May 2015 14:36:03 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!m20no1145629iga.0!news-out.google.com!kd3ni12462igb.0!nntp.google.com!m20no1145618iga.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 14:36:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <34b70b7a-8769-4fd2-a78e-9713e637f438@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.21.101; posting-account=Qh2kiQoAAADpCLlhT_KTYoGO8dU3n4I6 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.21.101 References: <47c7df1e-17c1-44cb-a455-43431f0d39cd@googlegroups.com> <85zj5wb9et.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <4b14659e-8c26-4c0a-8945-a5289740e054@googlegroups.com> <51c639dd-a48c-4130-becd-750cb23094da@googlegroups.com> <35aabdcd-6064-4999-9cdf-d143b0593a31@googlegroups.com> <34b70b7a-8769-4fd2-a78e-9713e637f438@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Textedit and txt From: Anh Vo Injection-Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 21:36:03 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:25795 Date: 2015-05-09T14:36:02-07:00 List-Id: 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: >=20 > > Well, either we'd modify the existing packages (which would be very=20 > > incompatible, so it would never happen), or we'd have to add new ones. = In=20 > > the later case, there would be a lot of opposition because we'd be=20 > > duplicating functionality. If it happened, it would happen because of a= dding=20 > > something like Root_String'Class to the language; then we'd need packag= es on=20 > > that type and those would necessarily be new. But I'm not expecting muc= h=20 > > happening on that. > >=20 > > Randy. >=20 > I can understand that for compatibility reasons there will be no new pack= age. 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 o= n vacuum tubes or programmed with punch cards or running on DOS. >=20 Another option is that users create new package. It will not take long to d= o it. Anh Vo