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Subject: Re: What about a glob standard method in Ada.Command_Line ?
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:02:02 +0200
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Le Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:06:37 +0200, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com=
>  =

a =C3=A9crit:
> 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 t=
he  =

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. I=
t  =

is at least as much platform independent as Ada.Directories is, as it ca=
n  =

be based on it.

I though about it while I was reading something about its little variant=
s,  =

and in the while though =E2=80=9Cthis is so commonly used, and this is n=
ot in Ada  =

standard methods, this may make Ada look a bit more friendly to people w=
ho  =

do not know it if it was there=E2=80=9D.

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