From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: [Ada.]Text_IO.Create
Date: 1997/05/15
Date: 1997-05-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1997May15.111011.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.863640175@merv
In article <dewar.863640175@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> Jeff said
>
> <<I think you'll find that this behavior is implementation defined. ALMOST
> all versions I've used deleted the existing file and created a new,
> empty file with the same name (or truncated the existing file to zero
> bytes; I can't tell the difference :). Anyway, since you're creating an
> implementation, you're free to decide what it does.>
>
> No, I think you will find the behavior very consistent accross
> implementations (have a look at the chapter 14 tests in the ACVC!)
If those tests are the ones DEC Ada passed, then I guess the proper
behaviour is the one I always thought was proper...
...create a new file with the next higher version number !!!
Larry Kilgallen
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1997-05-13 0:00 [Ada.]Text_IO.Create John McCabe
1997-05-14 0:00 ` [Ada.]Text_IO.Create Jeff Carter
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1997-05-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1997-05-15 0:00 ` [Ada.]Text_IO.Create John McCabe
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