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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-28 08:58:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Robert C. Leif" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: Ideas for Ada 200X Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 08:57:53 -0700 Organization: ENST, France Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1054137508 78939 137.194.161.2 (28 May 2003 15:58:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 15:58:28 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Marin David Condic'" , Return-Path: X-Envelope-From: rleif@rleif.com X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 11.0.4920 In-Reply-To: <3ED4A94C.2020501@noplace.com> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Thread-Index: AcMlKLMMj+CYfmICSG+qZaHX2kNIhQACK+Ew X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37914 Date: 2003-05-28T08:57:53-07:00 As much as I like XML, the complete linkage to XML should NOT be included in Ada 200X. A top level generic could be included in Interfaces. The reason for this is the instantiation of a generic can have child libraries. This would permit revision of the detailed parts of the interface durring the inevitable evolution of XML. Bob Leif -----Original Message----- From: Marin David Condic [mailto:nobody@noplace.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 5:19 AM To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org I think a standard Ada sockets package would be A Good Thing. So would something like an XML parser be a good thing. (Make it use the OO features Ada has so that it closely matches the XML standard. This is the only thing I don't like about the XMLAda package currently floating about - it uses discriminated records instead of tagged records, which would be the natural way to express what is in the XML standard.) This is another case where having some sort of Conventional Ada Library external of the standard would be A Good Thing. Get things like this into the library quickly, gain some experience with use and when they stabilize discuss the possibility of including them into the standard. MDC chris.danx wrote: > Preben Randhol wrote: > >> >> What about sockets? > > > Yep, sockets! Also what about XML parsing facilities and better > unicode support? They'd just be nice, but sockets would be great. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================