From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on
	ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1
Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: surprise data from Ada.Sequential_IO
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 10:18:53 +0100
Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net;
 news.eternal-september.org
Message-ID: <s3cbpt$tcm$1@dont-email.me>
References: <e5df978e-35b6-4224-9028-3cf88bd19872n@googlegroups.com>
 <s3akql$hln$1@dont-email.me>
 <becc53b7-4e93-4d6b-8202-df8165ecbeedn@googlegroups.com>
 <s3aru5$7tg$1@dont-email.me> <ibsefvF6rd3U1@mid.individual.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 09:18:53 -0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="125bd99a8fd2429a6cce27f79cf0d07d";
	logging-data="30102"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19qmNns0qZC2ymYmmM+YefYShgVg9thIhM="
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/78.7.1
Cancel-Lock: sha1:4IyTWfvJmexSxsEv8kJUBBglPes=
In-Reply-To: <ibsefvF6rd3U1@mid.individual.net>
Content-Language: en-US
Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:61649
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On 3/22/21 9:54 PM, Niklas Holsti wrote:
> 
> Not quite. From the RM:
> 
>     generic
>        type Element_Type is private;
>     package Ada.Direct_IO is
>     ...
> 
> and
> 
>     generic
>        type Element_Type(<>) is private;
>     package Ada.Sequential_IO is

Ah, yes. Having started with Ada 83, I sometimes forget about changes like this.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"[I]f you ask, 'Why does Ada do/have this?',
the answer often makes you a better programmer."
Chad R. Meiners
177