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From: deadlyhead <deadlyhead@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Defaulting to Standard_Output
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On Oct 23, 5:16=A0pm, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter....@spam.acm.org> wrote:
> deadlyhead wrote:
>
> > If anybody has a better way of handling defaulting to Standard_Output,
> > I'd like to see it. =A0This works for me, and seems elegant enough. =A0=
It
> > avoids a lot of messy conditionals in the body, anyway.
>
> This is what Ada.Text_IO.Set_Output is for.
>
> --
> Jeff Carter
> "When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely
> turned his tail and fled."
> Monty Python and the Holy Grail
> 60

I looked over Set_Output in the ARM and I went back looking for it in
the comp.lang.ada, and it looks to me that Set_Output will direct all
Put statements to Outfile if a file isn't designated, rather than
having calls of Put (Outfile, Item) appear in Standard_Output.

This doesn't appear to be the functionality I'm looking for.  If no
file is specifically named for Outfile, I want all output to appear on
the terminal.  If a file is named for Outfile, then direct output to
that.  Using Set_Output (Outfile), wouldn't I still need a Create
statement for Outfile?

-- deadlyhead