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From: Steve Quinlan <steven.quinlan@nospam.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: Ada.Streams examples
Date: 1999/03/11
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Richard D Riehle wrote:

>  Perhaps I should have said, it is possible to override the Read and Write
>  operations so they behave exactly as you want them to. In fact, the
>  procedures Read and Write, in package Ada.Streams, are abstract so they
>  must be overridden. Note: we are not talking of Ada.Streams.Stream_IO.
>  We are talking about the parent package Ada.Streams (LRM 13.13.1).
>  Notice how useful this is in Ada.Exceptions from the GNAT compiler.
>
>  Richard

  OK, that's clearer. I understand that when you define a new stream type
derived from root_stream_class you have to implement the read and write
procedures that override Ada.Streams. But what GNAT did was to override the
'read and 'write attributes.