Re: RE: rename missing in Text_IO

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <mailman.989009524.30396.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, Beard, Frank
says...
>But why not be part of the standard, maybe in an Annex.  I
>almost sympathize with what Ted's saying.  But by his reasoning,
>Ada.Command_Line shouldn't be provided either, because the OS
>has an interface to do it.  For that matter, none of the IO should
>be there because we could pragma interface to all those routines.
..
>From: Ted Dennison [mailto:dennison@telepath.com]
>That's all stuff that's considered part of the OS, and thus you are expected
>to make the appropriate OS calls for your platform. Most of the time, your Ada
>vendor will have supplied a package that has bindings to those OS calls, but
>what it is depends on your vendor and platform.

Hey, I never said it was a Good Thing. I just said that this is the way it is.
For a beginner, that's the main issue.

I actually think it may well be a good thing to have some kind of Ada.C_Library
package hierarchy in an annex in some future version of the language for stuff
like that, since the C library realisticly is going to be available on most Ada
platforms. Perhaps an Ada.Directory_Operations would be a good idea too. Heck,
I'd even like to see a GUI in the standard, if its possible to agree on a good
one.

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