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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?