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,af5bf4e3cf0c28b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-30 14:47:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!teaser.fr!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Beard, Frank" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: Cannot use NULL as identifier? Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:45:48 -0400 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 991259245 42201 137.194.161.2 (30 May 2001 21:47:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 21:47:25 +0000 (UTC) To: "'comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org'" Return-Path: X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.4 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7898 Date: 2001-05-30T17:45:48-04:00 -----Original Message----- From: Ted Dennison [mailto:dennison@telepath.com] > 3) The package ASCII is obsolescent, so I wouldn't use > it in new code if I were you. You should be using > "Ada.Characters.Latin_1.Nul". As Ben Brosgol pointed out, ASCII was obsolescent before the ASCII standard was expanded to include characters 128 through 255. So, the odds of ASCII becoming obsolete are slim to none. So, I wouldn't worry too much about whether or not to use ASCII. Even if it does become obsolete, it is a relatively simply global substitute to replace "ASCII" with "Ada.Characters.Latin_1.Nul", or do a library level rename. Besides "Ada.Characters.Latin_1.Nul" being ugly to look at, if for nothing else, I will continue to use ASCII to avoid the lame analogies of Latin to Ada made by some of the C++ hacks ("A dead language for a dead language"). Frank