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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Interpretation of extensions different from Unix/Linux?
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:33:40 -0500
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> Surprising is that Ada.Directories uses plain String for file names, 
> paths,
> extension and patterns. This is clearly not an "Ada way" to deal with such
> things.

Why is that surprising? It has to be compatible with the file names accepted 
by the various Open routines in Ada.Text_IO, Ada.Direct_IO, etc.

You could argue that String is the wrong choice for all of those things, and 
I think you'd be right, but it's irrelevant as we stuck with the Ada 83 
definitions of the file I/O routines. (Adding overloaded ones would be 
unacceptibly incompatible, you wouldn't be able to use literals.)

                                                     Randy.