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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Textedit and txt
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 18:35:51 -0500
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"Laurent" <daemon2@internet.lu> wrote in message 
news:35aabdcd-6064-4999-9cdf-d143b0593a31@googlegroups.com...
> On Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 11:23:36 PM UTC+2, Randy Brukardt wrote:
...
>>I'd prefer a completely different design for both of these packages, so we 
>>could add some
>>mechanism to allow direct conversions, but that's likely too radical.)
>
> Why would that be too radical?

Well, either we'd modify the existing packages (which would be very 
incompatible, so it would never happen), or we'd have to add new ones. In 
the later case, there would be a lot of opposition because we'd be 
duplicating functionality. If it happened, it would happen because of adding 
something like Root_String'Class to the language; then we'd need packages on 
that type and those would necessarily be new. But I'm not expecting much 
happening on that.

                                   Randy.