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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu>
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Subject: Re: Feedback wanted: Breakout game using SDL
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On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 22:46:16 -0500, Chad R. Meiners wrote:


> 3. Thick Binding Clarity : The purpose of writing to game was to test
> how easy the AdaSDL thick binding is to use.   Does the binding look
> convenient and easy to use?

I'll have to look at it closer when time allows, but I'm glad to see that
you're creating a thick binding because I've been itching to do some SDL
stuff and have been hesitating because I don't want to get bogged down in
programming around Vargas' thin bindings.

After a brief initial peek I'd like to give you the same suggestion I just
gave David Holm re his OpenGL bindings (see the other thread).  Namely,
call your _product_ "AdaSDL", but drop "Ada" from the name of the actual
Ada packages, so that a program will use simply -

	with SDL.Video;
	...

It's abundantly clear that any Ada package is an Ada package!

-- 
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas