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Subject: Re: What about a glob standard method in Ada.Command_Line ?
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:42:42 +0200
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Date: 2010-08-24T20:42:42+02:00
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Le Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:24:41 +0200, Georg Bauhaus  =

<rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> a =E9crit:
> I meant (forgetting the footnote, sorry):
>
> ls *.foo
>
> may just not work, since glob may hit a memory limit when building the=

> list of filenames.  On the other hand,
>
> ls | while read filename
>   do
>     case $filename in
>       *.foo)
>         ...;;
>
> does not have this problem.
I understand that point, theoretically, not practically. Reaching memory=
  =

limit would typically requires millions of match. This may occur in  =

theory, less in practice (where you will have at most a thousand... and =
 =

this would be not so common).

I though this was a good idea, but do not feel it is worth the reactions=
  =

it produced, so I suggest to just forget it (unless someone feel the  =

layout of Ada.Command_Line may be part of the good first feeling some ne=
w  =

comers may have about Ada).


-- =

* 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