From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com>
Subject: Re: External_Tag: Why? was Re: Ada0x Enhancement? Was: Tags.Internal_Tag(String'Input(Stream)) ??
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 16:50:45 GMT
Date: 2001-01-01T16:50:45+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A50B4C0.A173EB54@home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: UeO36.884$xo3.202777@homer.alpha.net
Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> tmoran@acm.org wrote in message ...
> >Of what use is "for T'External_Tag use "abc;" since it doesn't actually
> >specify what's written or read with S'Class'Input?
>
> I think that the intent was that it can be used to synchronize tags
> between multiple programs compiled with a single compiler. (There is no
> guarentee that they are the same otherwise...)
>
> Randy.
You can override the way any type is T'Input or T'Read, but you cannot
override the way tags are read. Tags are always read with String'Input.
Hence the suggested improvement. Look into the way tagged records are
read from a Stream, and you'll understand the enhancement request.
--
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://members.home.net/ve3wwg
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2000-12-28 6:19 ` Tags.Internal_Tag(String'Input(Stream)) ?? tmoran
2000-12-28 15:06 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2000-12-28 15:02 ` In Plain Text: " Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2000-12-28 15:54 ` Ted Dennison
2000-12-28 18:32 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2000-12-28 19:44 ` Ted Dennison
2000-12-29 2:20 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2000-12-29 3:20 ` tmoran
2000-12-29 3:04 ` tmoran
2000-12-29 5:29 ` Ada0x Enhancement? Was: " Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2000-12-29 7:11 ` tmoran
2000-12-29 14:32 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2000-12-30 5:55 ` External_Tag: Why? was " tmoran
2000-12-31 22:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2001-01-01 16:50 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG [this message]
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