Re: limited private types

["Marc A. Criley" <marc.a.criley@lmco.com>]

You can use an "access File_Type" type, allocate instances
of it, stack them, and Close them--Close(F.all).

Marc

r_srinivasan@my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> folks,
> 
> I hope someone has a reasonable suggestion for the following problem :
> 
> I am developing a file processing application that requires opening and
> closing of an unspecified number of files. Ideally i would like to
> build a "stack" of "files".
> 
> Currently I am using text_io package. Unfortunately the type
> text_io.file_type is a "limited private" type and this means no
> assignments. I have been able to get around this somewhat by using
> File_access type but there is no "close" procedure that will take a
> file_access.
> 
> Any and all ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> regards
> 
> srini
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