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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1901f265c928a511 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nnx.oleane.net!oleane!freenix!wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail From: Pascal Obry Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: new revision ada (exception handling) Date: 23 Jun 2004 09:55:00 +0200 Organization: Home - http://www.obry.org Message-ID: References: <40BDBBFA.2020203@noplace.com> <1087475285.166449@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <2jlepqF12qbb6U1@uni-berlin.de> <1774424.VSnnNmZCKX@linux1.krischik.com> <2jr3tjF149hg2U1@uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: avelizy-151-1-34-205.w82-124.abo.wanadoo.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news-reader2.wanadoo.fr 1087977303 31847 82.124.240.205 (23 Jun 2004 07:55:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Jun 2004 07:55:03 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.95 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1802 Date: 2004-06-23T07:55:03+00:00 List-Id: "Nick Roberts" writes: > I think a possible answer to this question is that XML is human-readable (or > at least it is pure text), whereas Ada streams are (essentially) binary. I > think the point of providing (only) string data for parametising exceptions > in Ada 95 was to ensure that those parameters could simply be > printed/displayed (by diagnostic software). XML encoded parameters could > also be simply printed out, as well as being interpreted and used by > knowledgeable software. There is mixed issues here. The stream does not need to be human readable as the information is passed between partition, this is really a computer issue and the most compact representation is better. Now to display the exception information I agree that we need to kind of human representation. Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.org --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595