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

[Preben Randhol]

Stephen Leake <stephen_leake at acm.org> wrote on 29/05/2002 (14:16) :
> 
> Well, you only need ASIS at compile time. At runtime, you just have
> aggregate parsers. And Auto_Text_IO does _not_ support arbitary
> aggregate element order, so the parsers are really simple.

Ok I know little of asis, so I thought you where linking it in with the
code.

> Everybody should use ASIS at compile time. It's good for the soul :).

How do you do that.
> 
> Shades of XML and Hungarian notation. To keep things simple, I think
> the type should be implied by the Ada function called to read the key.

Agreed

> Hmm. I guess if we want to be able to process arbitrary keys
> dynamically, you have a point. But I don't want to go this far; the
> Ada code has to know what type it is looking for, just not the actual
> name or value.

Agreed

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