RE: RE: rename missing in Text_IO

["Beard, Frank" <beardf@spawar.navy.mil>]

I'm apologize if I misunderstood you, but I've heard similar things from
others, including some vendors, and assumed that's what you meant.  One of
the vendors told me (highly paraphrased) they basically wait to see where
the market goes and then make bindings to the interfaces.  So, they're
always in a state of catch-up.

As far as Ada.C_Library, I wasn't thinking along those lines.  As a
matter of fact, I wouldn't really even want to make the connection
between the things I want provided in the language and their C counter
parts.  I was thinking more along the lines of your other suggestion,
such as Ada.Directory_Operations, Ada.File_Operations, etc.

Even if the C version is there first, hide that from me.  Take a good
idea and make it better with Ada.  

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Dennison [mailto:dennison@telepath.com]
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 5:22 PM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: RE: rename missing in Text_IO


In article <mailman.989009524.30396.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, Beard, Frank
says...
>But why not be part of the standard, maybe in an Annex.  I
>almost sympathize with what Ted's saying.  But by his reasoning,
>Ada.Command_Line shouldn't be provided either, because the OS
>has an interface to do it.  For that matter, none of the IO should
>be there because we could pragma interface to all those routines.
..
>From: Ted Dennison [mailto:dennison@telepath.com]
>That's all stuff that's considered part of the OS, and thus you are
expected
>to make the appropriate OS calls for your platform. Most of the time, your
Ada
>vendor will have supplied a package that has bindings to those OS calls,
but
>what it is depends on your vendor and platform.

Hey, I never said it was a Good Thing. I just said that this is the way it
is.
For a beginner, that's the main issue.

I actually think it may well be a good thing to have some kind of
Ada.C_Library
package hierarchy in an annex in some future version of the language for
stuff
like that, since the C library realisticly is going to be available on most
Ada
platforms. Perhaps an Ada.Directory_Operations would be a good idea too.
Heck,
I'd even like to see a GUI in the standard, if its possible to agree on a
good
one.

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