Re: questions on Ada openGL binding in the GLOBE3D packages

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

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

> I think calling that "thin" is dubious. I call the technique "medium" for a 
> lack of a better term, 

OK, fair enough, call it "medium".  It wasn't the thinest it could be,
but it wasn't very thick.  In this case, the binding was to some
real-time kernel, and the "thick" binding would be the Ada run-time
system built on top of it.

>...and it has to include normalizing the names, adding 
> appropriate defaults, and using Ada parameter modes appropriately

In the case I'm talking about, not much of that.  I can't remember
about the names, but no defaults, and all parameters of mode 'in',
as in C.n

>...(along 
> with raising exceptions). But I agree that it makes reading C documentation 
> easier than for a true "thick" binding -- the problem being, that no one 
> should be forcing Ada programmers to read C documentation. Cost 
> considerations of course make that necessary sometimes, but even then I 
> would hope that there would at least be some Ada-specific documentation 
> covering common use-cases.

Sure.

- Bob