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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,24a59fbc07128ff8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-04 14:22:03 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator!feed2.newsfeeds.com!newsfeeds.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: Subject: Re: RE: rename missing in Text_IO Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 17:21:35 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 21:21:35 GMT Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7183 Date: 2001-05-04T21:21:35+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com