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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a0833bbed8752e1f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!134.158.69.22.MISMATCH!in2p3.fr!oleane.net!oleane!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: variable lenght strings References: <1861614.TWv5A9FgVL@linux1.krischik.com> <4178e979_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> <1195374.UMjBCk7lO1@linux1.krischik.com> <1154613.ipZcUgduzp@linux1.krischik.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.4 (PPC Mac OS X) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:48:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 138.217.31.22 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1099039738 138.217.31.22 (Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:48:58 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:48:58 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5828 Date: 2004-10-29T08:48:58+00:00 List-Id: Randy Brukardt wrote: > Note that implementations have to have implicit page terminators at the end > of the file (putting in explicit ones would be awful, and there are ACATS > tests which check that the one at the end of the file actually exists), so > supporting implicit line terminators isn't that much extra work. I'm surprised that we didn't get another Text_IO package in Ada0Y which would get rid of all the crufty old stuff and create a much faster package. Ada.Chars_IO or similar. Dale -- dstanbro@spam.o.matic.bigpond.net.au