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: 103376,80b3e504140e89fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-20 19:06:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!csulb.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!west.cox.net!cox.net!p02!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D1289D2.9090107@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Config_Files proposal References: <3D0FAC67.A4861809@san.rr.com> <3D10B6B1.AFE9D4E8@san.rr.com> <3D10E046.E604231D@san.rr.com> <3D1204B5.4620F160@san.rr.com> <3D1215A8.719D39C5@nbi.dk> <3D123852.1040508@san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 02:06:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1024625166 68.12.51.201 (Thu, 20 Jun 2002 22:06:06 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 22:06:06 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26534 Date: 2002-06-21T02:06:06+00:00 List-Id: Darren New wrote: > I think "forbid simultaneous access" is fine. But that's not what you're > doing. You're doing "screw the user if there's simultaneous access." > Kind of the way C "forbids" indexing off the end of an array. ;-) I'm probably missing something here. How is this worse than the current situation with Ada.Text_IO?