Re: What about a glob standard method in Ada.Command_Line ?

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

Le Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:06:37 +0200, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com>  
a écrit:
> It would surely help to have some idea of what a "glob" is! And  
> explained in
> some way which is not specific to any particular OS.
The old one inherited from first UNIX and which while old is still part of  
many core libraries (C, Python, Eiffel, Pascal, etc) and one of the most  
commonly used to handle command-line parameters, the one which as an  
example, from a "/directory/*.adb" returns an array of strings for all the  
files matching the pattern.

This could be implemented based on the directories package, so provided  
for platforms where this package is available. If there is no trouble to  
keep Ada.Directories, there should be no matter to have a glob method. It  
is at least as much platform independent as Ada.Directories is, as it can  
be based on it.

I though about it while I was reading something about its little variants,  
and in the while though “this is so commonly used, and this is not in Ada  
standard methods, this may make Ada look a bit more friendly to people who  
do not know it if it was there”.

Here is the story. Not a critical item, just a possibly appealing item.

-- 
* 3 lines of concise statements is readable, 10 pages of concise  
statements is unreadable ;
* 3 lines of verbose statements may looks unuseful, 10 pages of verbose  
statements will never looks too much pedantic