Re: Ada Configuration API for Unix and Windows

[Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov>]

Ulrich Eckhardt <uli.e@gmx.de> writes:

> Stephen Leake wrote:
> > In an example, you have:
> >   Put(reg,To_Key("A_Key"),"A Value"); -- A Key in the default section
> >   Why is the conversion To_Key necessary? Surely it could be done by
> > Put?
> 
> I have decided to introduce special types for sections and values,
> so that the user can not accidentialy permute sections and keys or
> other unbounded strings, specialy when variables are used (and not
> simple string literals like in the example).

That seems to make sense at first, but just gets in the way in the
long run. A string is a string. Named association is a better
solution. 

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-- Stephe