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-Thread: 103376,e219d94b946dfc26 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!proxad.net!proxad.net!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:49:13 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <45dcaed8_6@news.bluewin.ch> <1172132169.423514.271890@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <87hctei5pf.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1172221265 18246 195.25.228.57 (23 Feb 2007 09:01:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:01:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9448 Date: 2007-02-23T09:49:13+01:00 List-Id: Markus E Leypold a �crit : > That depends on the shell the user is using. That's exactly the problem. I'm just saying that the program should be able to decide how to interpret its parameters. You are perfectly welcome to not share that opinion. > For the real hard cases I suggest to write a specialized interactive > "shell" around you toolset (some modula compilers had such interactive > modes, I think). The the user than cannot by accident type e.g. 'cat' > and wait until infinity since he doesn't know what he did there. > Did that, I have an interactive mode. I also have a command-line mode, and I would precisely prefer that they work the same! -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr