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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Pass a serial port as user data in a GTK callback handler?
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:11:13 -0500
Date: 2014-02-20T11:11:13-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcc7g8pzrvi.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: le3ij5$ipl$1@loke.gir.dk

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> Yeah, you got rid of the term collection in Ada 95, and we just now put it 
> back in Ada 2012. So I think you were confused for a fairly long moment - a 
> bit under 17 years. :-)

;-)

No, not that long.  I don't remember when I was confused, and when
I wised up, but I just didn't bother to reinstate "collection"
when I wised up.

> You'd be wrong about that. They tried that, and no existing C code 
> (especially Unix) would work.

Interesting.  Such C code is broken (or at least deliberately written
to be nonportable).  It doesn't surprise me.

> But it sure would help if named and anonymous access used the same syntax. 
> :-)

Agreed.

- Bob


      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-20 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-15 23:32 Pass a serial port as user data in a GTK callback handler? hreba
2014-02-16  0:35 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-02-16 16:18   ` hreba
2014-02-16  7:45 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-16 16:14   ` hreba
2014-02-16  9:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-16 16:57   ` hreba
2014-02-16 18:02     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-17 16:13 ` adambeneschan
2014-02-17 16:20   ` adambeneschan
2014-02-17 21:31     ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-19  0:53       ` Randy Brukardt
2014-02-19 22:22         ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-20  0:34           ` Randy Brukardt
2014-02-20 11:07             ` Simon Wright
2014-02-20 16:11             ` Robert A Duff [this message]
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