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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-28 13:00:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X (Ada.Sockets) References: <6a90b886.0305262344.1d558079@posting.google.com> <3ED4A94C.2020501@noplace.com> <3ed4c9a2@news.wineasy.se> <3ED4EB4E.6050108@cogeco.ca> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:02:29 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.107.63.23 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net 1054152010 81.107.63.23 (Wed, 28 May 2003 21:00:10 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:00:10 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37938 Date: 2003-05-28T21:02:29+02:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > Standard, as in required of all compilers ? > > That would be totally bogus in some embedded environments. Can't you say "the provision of sockets is compulsory, except for environments where such provision makes no sense"? i.e. it's not optional for compilers on networked systems, but not mandatory on embedded targets?