[OT] Mailinglist for Ada programming? (was Re: [gtkada] configura tion files)

[Preben Randhol]

Stephen Leake <stephen_leake at acm.org> wrote on 28/05/2002 (11:45) :
> manuel.op.de.coul at eon-benelux.com writes:
> 
> > In this package I miss procedures to write changed values
> > back. In my program I use it to make the size of windows which
> > were resized by the user persistent among other things, with
> > lines in the ini file like:
> > Main_Window_Size 600 480
> 
> It might be good to support aggregates for normal Ada records. We
> could use a variant of Auto_Text_IO
> (http://users.erols.com/leakstan/Stephe/Ada/auto_text_io.html) to
> generate the code to read/write records to ini files. But maybe that's
> overkill. 

If one need ASIS I think it is overkill yes, but perhaps hmmm

I was thinking

would it be of additional value (to robustsness) if we made:

Version.Float=0.1
Max_Value.Integer=10

I mean that the last word before = is a description on what type is on
the other side of the = ?


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