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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-31 11:41:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: Richard Riehle Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X (GNAT.IO_Aux.Get_Line) Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 11:43:08 -0700 Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering Message-ID: <3ED8F7BC.335C6080@adaworks.com> References: <6a90b886.0305262344.1d558079@posting.google.com> <3ED4A94C.2020501@noplace.com> <3ed4c9a2@news.wineasy.se> <3ED4F77F.5060809@noplace.com> <3ED74BC7.3080100@noplace.com> <3ED79621.80809@cogeco.ca> Reply-To: richard@adaworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 3f.bb.68.a4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 31 May 2003 18:41:15 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38233 Date: 2003-05-31T18:41:15+00:00 List-Id: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote: > Another example: Include a standard version of GNAT.IO_Aux.Get_Line > as part of Ada.Text_IO for Ada0Y. Why should people have to keep > rolling their own, or relying on GNAT code for this? While we're making suggestions about Text_IO, why not change the Get operations to functions for Scalar types. This is one of the important changes Jerry Van Dijk made in CONSOLE_IO. It works great. Richard Riehle