From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e61c8636ef35379d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Randy Brukardt" Subject: Re: Ada Streams usage (was Escape Sequences in Strings) Date: 2000/11/20 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 695977436 References: <3A17B0E2@MailAndNews.com> <3A129A89.1B69E2FE@acm.org> <3A13D59E.63A6F92@earthlink.net> <3A168546.89CA38F7@acm.org> <3A177878.AD747325@telepath.com> <3A182633.BDE82EA9@acm.org> <8v9lip$2dr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3719.2500 X-Complaints-To: abuse@alpha.net X-Trace: homer.alpha.net 974767511 156.46.62.124 (Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:45:11 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:45:11 CST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote in message <8v9lip$2dr$1@nnrp1.deja.com>... >In article <3A182633.BDE82EA9@acm.org>, >There is a bit of a puzzle about base types, but that is >compeltely resolved by a recent AI (GNAT incidentally is >already conforming to the recommendations of this AI, and >always has). My, GNAT is implemented in a hurry. We just approved the intent of this AI (AI-195) during the Sunday session of the recent ARG meeting, roughly 4 hours before Robert sent his message. And Tucker didn't even finish the proposal until Wednesday night. It is amazing how fast GNAT is implemented. :-) :-) Seriously, the AI in question is not (finally) approved and still needs more work. So I think claiming to conform to it is premature. (Importantly, the base type problem means that streams may not be portable between different Ada compilers on the same machine. Even if GNAT is following the AI proposal, there is no requirement that other compilers do so until the AI is completed.... Caveat empor.) Randy Brukardt (ARG Editor)