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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,5f7230830b229a11 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-30 17:16:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 19:17:11 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 19:16:29 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: FW: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.49 X-Trace: sv3-v5ZYy2WSJBD+LUj6oQrrG1o5xiuONxu9y4AfpktWcniCRI6Qndf5hhKLCdSGBbeEfZ9KDZQ59YgbeNp!WLVzr6gpxGp68tdrk8YIo9zTweDFBrkDkH6tkiOMXeJ9eAX9o2AtVTNejC87sE8vjRDRR33hWRU/ X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:47 Date: 2003-09-30T19:16:29-05:00 List-Id: M�rio Amado Alves wrote: > Now balance this with the cons: > > - longer ARM, or If the IO packages all have the same "shape" then they should not require a lot of extra text. I see no point in having several pages that are identical except for part of the type name. (There's already too much of that in the child packages of Ada.Text_IO and in Wide_String routines repeating the text for String routines.) If they don't have the same "shape" then it adds complexity to learning the language. It always bugged me that IO for some data types is Get() and Put() but for others it's Read() and Write(). -- Wes Groleau ----------- Daily Hoax: http://www.snopes2.com/cgi-bin/random/random.asp