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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Parser interface design
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On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:35:12 -0700, Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Natasha Kerensikova wrote on comp.lang.ada:

>>> So what would be the best approach

>> From the replies I had, it seems I'm clearly, obviously and deeply
>> wrong according to everybody, and yet I can't even begin to understand
>> what is wrong and it which way it is wrong.

May I please echo the other cries of NO! and add:

perhaps the problem was in asking "the best" of something, anything, 
anywhere. That is usually doomed to failure by drowning in a sea of 
mutually contradictory opinions...

> Also, I do not think this is a language problem.  What you can write in
> C, you can also write in Ada.  
... and probably better, or at least more safely.

I believe the approach you first posited was a perfectly viable one, and 
has the great merit of being one you understand well. 

I am also learning Ada (though after C and C++ it feels more like healing 
to me) and typically I'll write mostly what I am familiar with : picking 
and learning ONE new technique in the process : such as using generics 
for your callbacks.

Best will come in time; meanwhile, I am satisfied with good enough, and 
learning one step at a time.

Hoping not to discourage,
- Brian