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-Thread: 103376,e219d94b946dfc26 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.buerger.net!news.ecp.fr!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:40:18 +0100 Organization: Jacob's private Usenet server Message-ID: References: <45dcaed8_6@news.bluewin.ch> <1172132169.423514.271890@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <87hctei5pf.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: taasingegade.news.jacob-sparre.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: jacob-sparre.dk 1172324418 20152 85.82.239.166 (24 Feb 2007 13:40:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:40:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Imwtj/jlnGFG1f5NRNi/P8+f2D0= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9488 Date: 2007-02-24T14:40:18+01:00 List-Id: Jean-Pierre Rosen skriva�i: > Jacob Sparre Andersen a �crit : >> But if the programs do the expansion, you can be certain that the >> expansion will differ from program to program. > > Why? Assume that your OS provides a function for doing the > expansion. Because some programmers will prefer one of the available functions for doing the expansion, and other programmers will prefer some of the other available functions for doing the expansion. Jacob -- No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.