From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: GNAT's Text_IO & empty files
Date: 1998/07/07
Date: 1998-07-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35A16917.18DE1396@cl.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.899765885@merv
Robert Dewar wrote:
> Most certainly if you comment these lines out, your resulting runtime will
> not be compliant with annex A of the reference manual. These lines were not
> put in for amusement!
In addition, it might be worth noting that it is common practive
under Unix that all text files end with a LF character. Editors
such as vi do not allow you to create a file that does not end with
LF. In this sense, the Ada convention goes nicely with the Unix
convention.
[The Unix line terminator convention is the only useful one anyway.
The MSDOS text file convention with its silly CR and Ctrl-Z
characters should be sent to the bit graveyard as soon as possible.
What for do we need a line feed character that does not include
the carriage return functionality?]
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Security Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK
email: mkuhn at acm.org, home page: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-07-07 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-07-06 0:00 GNAT's Text_IO & empty files Gautier de Montmollin
1998-07-06 0:00 ` Pascal MALAISE
1998-07-07 0:00 ` Gautier
1998-07-07 0:00 ` Kevin Radke
1998-07-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-07-07 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn [this message]
1998-07-07 0:00 ` Gautier
1998-07-07 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-07-08 0:00 ` Aaro Koskinen
1998-07-09 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-07-09 0:00 ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
1998-07-08 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-07 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-07-07 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-07-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-07-07 0:00 ` Gautier
1998-07-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-07-07 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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