From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Q: type ... is new String
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 07:43:04 +0200
Date: 2012-06-04T07:43:04+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.wfc552dyule2fv@douda-yannick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jq5i58$qe8$1@speranza.aioe.org
Le Wed, 30 May 2012 18:33:45 +0200, <tmoran@acm.org> a écrit:
> Any comments on the effectiveness of using multiple types for different
> categories of strings, rather than "String" all the time?
> I have a TV program database with a base directory, containing a folder
> for each show, which in turn has a folder for each season, which then
> has a folder for each episode, which then contains the actual video, eg
> c:\TV\I Love Lucy\1975\The New Neighbor\video.mpg
> Instead of wordy, and error prone, calls on Ada.Directories.Compose, or
> Episode & '\' & Video_File
> Would it be useful to have
> type Show_Paths is new String;
> type Season_Paths is new String;
> type Episode_Paths is new String;
> ...
May be a single base Path_Type could be enough, and all others could be
subtype of this base type.
--
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University
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2012-05-30 16:33 Q: type ... is new String tmoran
2012-05-30 17:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-31 7:37 ` Maciej Sobczak
2012-06-04 5:58 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-04 6:30 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-06-04 7:48 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-04 8:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-04 8:14 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-04 9:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-04 10:35 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-06-04 5:43 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) [this message]
2012-06-04 11:39 ` Brian Drummond
2012-06-04 13:36 ` Maciej Sobczak
2012-06-04 14:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-04 15:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-04 16:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-04 17:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-04 20:28 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-04 20:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-05 7:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-05 8:40 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-05 9:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-05 12:20 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-05 13:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-06 4:09 ` Shark8
2012-06-06 8:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-06 23:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-07 11:15 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-06 23:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-04 20:33 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-04 21:27 ` Georg Bauhaus
[not found] ` <m9kqs7hgii13e220b1phm46n43d92tu1pj@invalid.netcom.com>
2012-06-05 6:15 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-05 6:36 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-06 4:14 ` Shark8
2012-06-07 0:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-07 0:20 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-06-05 12:05 ` Brian Drummond
2012-06-05 14:43 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-04 15:54 ` Shark8
2012-06-04 22:01 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-06-05 12:10 ` Brian Drummond
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