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!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!news.illinois.net!attcg1!ip.att.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: variable lenght strings Date: 25 Oct 2004 20:53:24 -0500 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: <1861614.TWv5A9FgVL@linux1.krischik.com> <4178e979_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> <1195374.UMjBCk7lO1@linux1.krischik.com> <1154613.ipZcUgduzp@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1098755578 2745 192.135.80.34 (26 Oct 2004 01:52:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 01:52:58 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5706 Date: 2004-10-25T20:53:24-05:00 List-Id: In article , "Randy Brukardt" writes: > I vaguely recall having argued this with Robert Dewar, and I think that they > had a different interpretation, based on the idea that a file with a missing > CR/LF is incorrect for use with Text_IO. I hope I misremember that, because > it is stupid (even if it is logically correct) as it essentially says that > you can't read outside generated text files with Text_IO (you can't know > whether the file has CR/LFs as required). To say that Text_IO cannot read files generated by other languages seems illogical to me (from the vantage point on an operating system where the lingua franca is record-based files.)