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Subject: Re: Type naming conventions: Any_Foo
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On Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 2:58:21 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> On 12/8/19 3:31 PM, Shark8 wrote:
> >=20
> > I'm rather interested in this no-access-type library idea.
> > Would it be easier to do with, say, an Ada implementation of Display Po=
stScript?
>=20
> That might work, though I thought there were licensing issues with using=
=20
> PostScript.
There might have been, at one point; but IIUC Adobe made the language-spec/=
RM free to download... which means we could implement it ourselves; this, i=
n turn, means that we could implement it without [exposed] access types. --=
 IIRC, it's been a while since I've read the spec.

> I've heard that Apple does something similar with PDF because anyone=20
> is allowed to produce PDF, but not PostScript.
Maybe; I seem to recall PDF was pushed to ISO-standardization, but might be=
 misremembering.

> I would probably choose HTML5 for portability.=20
Well, that's basically Gnoga's approach. I was thinking more of going the o=
ther way: using this for a system's base itself. (Possibly being able to sh=
are things with other Ada projects; e.g. the Wasabee web-browser.)