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Re: Ada.Characters.{Wide_}Latin_9 should be deleted
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, fw at deneb dot enyo dot de
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, starner at okstate dot edu
- Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 09:24:02 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Ada.Characters.{Wide_}Latin_9 should be deleted
>
> But such string constants are certainly not human readable, since
> you'd have to express the constants in terms of arrays of code
> positions, not string literals.
Well you can perfectly well give names to constants. As for human readable,
there is no such requirement ANY where in the Ada RM. An implementation of
wide_wide_character could perfectly well use the notation
<<<123876>>> for wide_wide_character literals and be conforming. The issue
of nice readable characters is outside the standard anyway. You could
for example allow strange string literals as simply representations of
certain specific modular array agreggates.