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: 103376,2500ce10d7c27120 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.volia.net!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.astraweb.com!newsrouter-eu.astraweb.com!feeder2.news-service.com!newsfeed.pacific.net.au!nasal.pacific.net.au!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New Ada ANSI console/X terminal game From: David Trudgett Organization: Very little? References: <43719ccf$0$25857$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5AL6vN6i1IoTrI+WgCNJKWEL8O8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:30:47 +1100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 61.8.32.83 X-Complaints-To: news@pacific.net.au X-Trace: nasal.pacific.net.au 1133490946 61.8.32.83 (Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:35:46 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:35:46 EST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6714 Date: 2005-12-02T13:30:47+11:00 List-Id: "Randy Brukardt" writes: > "David Trudgett" 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 -- David Trudgett http://www.zeta.org.au/~wpower/ It's sociologically interesting, though scary, that you can be inside an evil system and be somehow unaware of it. -- Actor Anthony Sher on growing up in apartheid-South Africa, interviewed by John Walsh, The Independent, 1 May, 2000