Re: Directory listings and path names

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Brian Rogoff <bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net> writes:

> Surely, we can find many OSes which provide no tasking, some tasking,
> sophisticated tasking, etc. I subscribe to the view that what goes in
> a language versus what goes in an OS is rather arbitrary. The same is
> true for language and library. Library design is language design.

I don't think this is true. The tasking constructs in Ada _cannot_ be
provided by an Ada package; they require compiler support. Thus they
are fundamentally different from directory operations, which clearly
_can_ be provided by a package.

This is separate from the question of whether a directory/file
operations package should be part of the standard. I agree it would be
nice, also hard. Perhaps a good compromise would be for all the Ada
vendors to support the Florist POSIX bindings, on OS's where that is
not too hard.

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