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From: LeakyStain <leakstan@erols.com>
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Subject: Auto_Text_IO ASIS application
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 18:00:48 -0500
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I've posted an ASIS application to my web site:

http://users.erols.com/leakstan/Stephe/Ada/auto_text_io.html

It generates Text_IO routines Put and Get, using named notation, when
given an Ada package containing types. This makes it much less tedious
to write readable unit tests, and provides persistent storage in human
readable format.

The tool is released under the GPL, the run-time components under the 
GMGPL.

There's a switch to generate Ada 83 compatible code; no Get then,
because
Ada 83 doesn't have Text_IO.Look_Ahead.

The Get routines are not as robust as an Ada compiler; the components 
must be in declaration order. That's sufficient for reading the output
of the Put routines, less good for hand-written inputs. It would be 
interesting to try to combine this with OpenToken to make it more
powerful.

Enjoy!

-- Stephe