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,cbb87dd49168c396 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-31 03:11:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Get_Line Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:32:39 +0000 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3DC106C7.4AE0AF9B@brighton.ac.uk> References: <3DBF3659.30709@acm.org> <4dRv9.46453$wm6.7691@nwrddc01.gnilink.net> <3DC0204E.4050203@acm.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: straumli.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1036060318 9152 193.62.183.204 (31 Oct 2002 10:31:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Oct 2002 10:31:58 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30249 Date: 2002-10-31T10:31:58+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > > Whether or not you like my Get_Line idea, surely you must admit that > beginners and experts are troubled by the current Text_IO interface. IMHO, the big problem with Text_IO is the line-oriented nature of the library (a la Pascal). C-style character-oriented I/O is so much easier to deal with! ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------