Re: Get_Line problem (GNAT bug?)

[Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov a �crit :
> The rules of thumb I suppose I and many other Ada programmers are using:
> 
> 1. Never ever use End_Of_File with text files;
> 2. If you yet use End_Of_File then do it for *each* character of the file;
> 3. As Adam has suggested, End_Error exception is the right design;
> 4. End_Error is not only cleaner and correct, but also more efficient.
> 
And I'll add another one:
5. End_Error works correctly with badly formed files, i.e. files whose
last line does not end with and end-of-line mark. You can get strange 
behaviour in that case with any other solution.

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