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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-23 07:02:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nnx.oleane.net!oleane!nnrp.oleane.net!skymaster!nobody From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor (Was: why ada is so unpopular ?) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:21:52 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <49cbf610.0401170627.79c3dfe5@posting.google.com> <400A9B48.3060100@noplace.com> <400BD4B5.6000307@noplace.com> <400BDB7C.40100@noplace.com> <400D2150.6000705@noplace.com> <400E72F9.8060501@noplace.com> <400FC65B.2020006@noplace.com> <3vioub.jvt.ln@skymaster> <40111AC2.7010802@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr X-Trace: s1.read.news.oleane.net 1074870136 5659 195.25.228.57 (23 Jan 2004 15:02:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:02:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4715 Date: 2004-01-23T15:21:52+01:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" 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. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr