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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a644fa9cd1a3869a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-28 00:10:49 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!uni-erlangen.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!news.tesion.net!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!not-for-mail From: Thomas Wolf Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: List container strawman 1.2 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:10:46 +0100 Organization: Private Message-ID: <3C049C06.DF85EF80@angelfire.com> References: <3BECA3B7.5020702@telepath.com><3BF0247D.4500975E@san.rr.com><5BXH7.22252$xS6.34813@www.newsranger.com><3BF052D3.ECEF3FF2@san.rr.com><3BF19FF8.7FE097EF@boeing.com><3BF27410.C899A16B@brighton.ac.uk><3BF3EDE5.FE0ED701@brighton.ac.uk> <700ht9.6k1.ln@127.0.0.1> <9tht9a$2j1ni$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <3piL7.34607$xS6.59455@www.newsranger.com> <9u0rkd$q9k$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pargate2.paranor.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: rex.ip-plus.net 1006935046 20199 195.65.4.190 (28 Nov 2001 08:10:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ip-plus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:10:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17086 Date: 2001-11-28T09:10:46+01:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > We've got here a Stream_Read and a Stream_Write procedure. Is there any > reason not to have a Stream_Input and Stream_Output as well? Why? 'Output and 'Input are defined in terms of 'Write and 'Read (see RM 13.13.2), so it generally suffices to define the latter. > Would it make more sense to have a Stream_Class_Read/Input/Write/Output? These, too, are defined in terms of dispatching to the correct non-class-wide attribute, which in turn again invoke 'Write and 'Read. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Thomas Wolf e-mail: t_wolf@angelfire.com