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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: function Is_Open (File : File_Type) return Boolean; :Text_io
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:30:16 +0100
Date: 2015-10-27T09:30:16+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1pj15r7pul7f1.15qgdyrc8k133$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87twpd2qlo.fsf@theworld.com

On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 18:48:51 -0400, Bob Duff wrote:

> comicfanzine@gmail.com writes:
> 
>> Can someone please show my a code in which this function is used , i'm
>> lost , thanks .
> 
> Most code is written so that it is statically known whether a file is
> open, so Is_Open is close to useless.  Not entirely useless -- you might
> use it in an assertion, such as:
> 
>     subtype Open_File is File with Predicate => Is_Open(Open_File);

In order to have the Constraint_Error exception instead of Status_Error?
Looks entirely useless to me.

> And Niklas Holsti gave a fairly realistic example where it is NOT
> statically known whether the file is open, so the program checks at run
> time.

Yes, but you cannot put a constraint on an existing object. Thus Niklas
example does not apply. 

[ Dynamic predicates never make any sense. ]

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de


  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-27  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-26 10:00 function Is_Open (File : File_Type) return Boolean; :Text_io comicfanzine
2015-10-26 11:27 ` Simon Wright
2015-10-26 13:25   ` comicfanzine
2015-10-26 18:01     ` Simon Wright
2015-10-26 19:03       ` AdaMagica
2015-10-27 11:30         ` Simon Wright
2015-10-26 18:02     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-10-26 13:28   ` comicfanzine
2015-10-26 15:07     ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-10-26 16:37     ` AdaMagica
2015-10-26 20:46     ` J-P. Rosen
2015-10-27  8:42   ` comicfanzine
2015-10-27 11:34     ` Simon Wright
2015-10-28 13:32       ` comicfanzine
2015-10-27  8:51   ` comicfanzine
2015-10-27 17:15     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-10-26 22:48 ` Bob Duff
2015-10-27  8:30   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2015-10-27 13:30     ` Bob Duff
2015-10-27 14:00       ` G.B.
2015-10-27 15:26       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-27 16:43         ` G.B.
2015-10-27 20:04           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-28 11:06             ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-10-28 17:58               ` Randy Brukardt
2015-10-28 18:20               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-28 20:36                 ` Bob Duff
2015-10-28 21:02                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-29 11:25                     ` AdaMagica
2015-10-29 13:37                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-29 17:57                         ` AdaMagica
2015-10-29 18:12                           ` AdaMagica
2015-10-29 18:26                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-30  8:27                           ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-10-30  9:11                             ` J-P. Rosen
2015-10-29 11:47                 ` G.B.
2015-10-29 13:01                   ` J-P. Rosen
2015-10-29 14:00                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-30  1:06                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-10-30  8:39                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-30 14:32                         ` G.B.
2015-10-30 16:20                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-30 19:07                             ` G.B.
2015-10-31  9:31                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-31 11:17                                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-10-30 14:40                         ` G.B.
2015-10-30 16:26                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-28 20:07         ` Bob Duff
2015-10-28 20:59           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-27 14:02     ` G.B.
2015-10-27 15:10       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-10-27 16:41         ` G.B.
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