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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Better way to fill Storage_IO?
Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 16:39:43 +0100
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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:

> Le 18/05/2021 à 22:39, Simon Wright a écrit :
>> so as well as the current ARM 13.13.2(4), for subtype S of type T
>>     procedure S'Write(
>>        Stream : not null access Ada.Streams.Root_Stream_Type'Class;
>>        Item : in T)
>> one could have for an object O
>>     procedure O'Write(
>>        Stream : not null access Ada.Streams.Root_Stream_Type'Class)
>> but we don't, not even in Ada 202x.
> For what benefit? Saving a few keystrokes?

I was going to remark on the unlikelihood of ARG's accepting this
keystroke-saving change unless there was evidence of massive demand. In
the case of 'Image, there was the popularity of AdaCore's 'Img
extension.