Re: New Ada ANSI console/X terminal game

[David Trudgett <wpower@zeta.org.au.nospamplease>]

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> "David Trudgett" <wpower@zeta.org.au.nospamplease> wrote in message
> news:m3r79qmd8h.fsf@rr.trudgett...
> ...
>> Actually, the only GNAT-specific package I used was the GNAT.OS_Lib
>> one, and that was purely for access to environment variables which, at
>> a pinch, could easily be removed from the program.
>
> For Ada 200Y, you should use Ada.Environment_Variables instead. That will be
> supported on all Ada 200Y compilers. For Ada 95, well, you'll have to depend
> on system specific stuff.
>

Thanks, Randy, I'll keep it in mind. I'm not sure how long it will be,
though, before the new standard gets widespread support. Wait and see,
I guess. Not that it really matters that much for a little console
game, I suppose.

David



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