"Marin David Condic" <nobody@noplace.com> a �crit dans le message de news:40111AC2.7010802@noplace.com...
> O.K. So there's a trick to get around it. (Do we call this "The Other
> Rosen Trick"? :-) Is Name'Image guaranteed to be in a given character
> case? (I've not checked that recently & must have forgot.)
Yes, it is guaranteed upper case (that's why my example is actually wrong!)

> That may eliminate one possible problem, but it really doesn't help make
> this feature useful. It still only helps at run time and I could have
> done that with a package of my own. If it doesn't let you branch around
> things that won't compile for a given configuration, then it really is
> mostly useless.
Sure. I was only addressing your claim that it would be better to have System_Name as a string.
In a sense, you already have it. The rest of the discussion is a different issue.

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