Re: for S'Image use Func??

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Wed, 12 May 2010 15:16:05 +0200, Maciej Sobczak  
<see.my.homepage@gmail.com> a écrit:
> The above is not even wrong. Ada.Text_IO cannot even *name* all the
> files that I have on my hard drive.
>
> Even assuming that I can open some file, the whole "abstraction of a
> text" is severely limited. I cannot, for example, read the second
> paragraph of the third chapter of the book that is in the file.
> This "abstraction" is really a stream on steroids, nothing fancy.
Talking about names, it happens I myself had troubles on Windows XP with  
some file names too (exceptions on directory iteration, raised when the  
file name contains some characters).

If that can make you happy, some real life projects too, requires no  
dependency at all on Ada.Text_IO and and other File_Type related things  
coming from standard packages. It is even part of some really used control  
file examples which comes with AdaControl
( http://www.adalog.fr/adacontrol1.htm )

If something is not suitable to you, nothing in the standard requires you  
to use it ;) It is really common to use Ada with restrictions to enforce  
some requirements. That does not mean these libraries are not good, just  
that they may not meet some expectations. Ada's standard library set is  
rather tiny (that's what is good) compared to others, so it cannot meet  
every ones expectations.

There is more benefit in being able to create the package you need and  
which is not provided by the standard, and be able to do it well and  
cleanly, than to have standard package to “meet” all requirements (not  
possible).

Perhaps Ada is more “ready to create” than “ready to cosume”

That was my two cents of the day, sorry if that was not so much worthy

-- 
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