From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,335f67c75a2a5d5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-01 08:50:47 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc2.on.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3A50B4C0.A173EB54@home.com> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: External_Tag: Why? was Re: Ada0x Enhancement? Was: Tags.Internal_Tag(String'Input(Stream)) ?? References: <3A4C2098.5137C8D0@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 16:50:45 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.141.193.52 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc2.on.home.com 978367845 24.141.193.52 (Mon, 01 Jan 2001 08:50:45 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 08:50:45 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3511 Date: 2001-01-01T16:50:45+00:00 List-Id: 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