From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Textedit and txt
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 16:57:11 -0500
Date: 2015-05-12T16:57:11-05:00 [thread overview]
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<brbarkstrom@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I don't agree with
> the notion of creating a "deprecated" category of items.
Ada has had such a category since Ada 95. See Annex J. So we'd hardly be
creating it, just adding to it.
I'm not much interested in that; I'd just make a new set of stuff that lives
alongside the old stuff (I don't see any practical way to get rid of type
String itself). I'd love to take all of the Wide_Wide_ stuff and toss it
into the garbage, as no one would ever use that if they had any reasonable
choice (wastes too much space and time).
The problem is that we're supposed to add Wide_Wide_ support to everything
that doesn't have it already, and if we do that, everything turns to
madness. (Do you want to have Wide_Wide_Open in all of the I/O libraries? I
sure as heck don't.) So the question isn't whether we add a large lump of
new stuff (that's a given), the question is whether we try to do it sanely
or just give up and add another thousand things no one will ever use. (The
Wide_Wide_ stuff is already in that category.)
Randy.
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-24 21:40 Annoying behavior Laurent
2015-04-25 4:31 ` gautier_niouzes
2015-04-25 6:51 ` Laurent
2015-04-25 4:50 ` Niklas Holsti
2015-04-25 7:15 ` Laurent
2015-04-25 8:10 ` Niklas Holsti
2015-04-25 15:37 ` Laurent
2015-04-25 13:54 ` Stephen Leake
2015-04-25 15:46 ` Laurent
2015-04-25 17:02 ` Simon Wright
2015-04-25 17:41 ` Niklas Holsti
2015-04-25 18:58 ` Laurent
2015-04-25 19:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-04-25 20:13 ` Laurent
2015-04-25 21:46 ` Laurent
2015-04-25 23:16 ` Bob Duff
2015-04-26 10:38 ` Jedi Tek'Unum
2015-04-26 11:52 ` Textedit and txt Laurent
2015-04-26 13:21 ` brbarkstrom
2015-05-06 21:23 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-07 21:12 ` Laurent
2015-05-07 21:48 ` Simon Wright
2015-05-07 22:24 ` Laurent
2015-05-08 5:50 ` Simon Wright
2015-05-08 7:35 ` Laurent
2015-05-08 23:35 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-09 19:25 ` Laurent
2015-05-09 21:36 ` Anh Vo
2015-05-11 17:00 ` Shark8
2015-05-11 17:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-05-09 15:23 ` brbarkstrom
2015-05-12 1:10 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-05-12 12:44 ` brbarkstrom
2015-05-12 21:57 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2015-05-13 12:07 ` brbarkstrom
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