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Subject: Re: Why no Ada.Wide_Directories?
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:23:30 +0200
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Le Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:15:11 +0200, Peter C. Chapin <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu=
>  =

a =C3=A9crit:
> It's not that silly.
>
> In order to talk sensibly about files the standard needs to define a  =

> model of "file" and, in this case even "file system." This needs to be=
 a  =

> model that will be applicable to the widest range of platforms possibl=
e.  =

> Such is the nature of a standard. Thus the standard model of "file" an=
d  =

> "file system" will be a simplified abstraction of the real thing on an=
y  =

> particular system. A portable program can only make use of that  =

> simplified abstraction if it expects to remain portable.
> [etc]
You are going too far, turning the matter into something it was not. Aft=
er  =

that, your conclusions can be just wrong or can just apply to other  =

matters, but the actual.

It was just about character set,  and that model exist in Ada (in a  =

non=E2=80=91homogeneous way, which seems a failure).

> What happens when such a program tries to create files with such names=
  =

> on a system that doesn't support them?
What about Text I/O then ? =E2=80=9CSurprisingly=E2=80=9D, no body compl=
ained.

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