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From: Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: why ada is so unpopular ?
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Date: 2004-01-20T18:59:54-05:00

Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org> writes:

> On 2004-01-20, Robert I. Eachus <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > Shrug.  I would like it if GtkAda had a more Ada-like binding. But as I 
> > said it is more than good enough so other things are higher on my 
> > priority list.
> 
> Please descibe what you mean.

I'll jump in here :)

GtkAda currently follows Gtk+ in using strings to name events; the Ada
way would be to use enumerals, named constants, or function names.

GtkAda also allows the user to easily bind an incorrect handler to an
event ("incorrect" here meaning "has the wrong parameter/result
profile"). The error is reported at run-time, but the Ada way is to
catch this error at compile time.

In my GtkAda projects, I'm attempting to fix both issues, by providing
child packages for the current GtkAda packages that present the "Ada
way". If it works out, I'll propose it as a change to be incorporated
(some things would benefit from being primitive operations, which must
be in the same package as the type).

-- 
-- Stephe