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Jano wrote:

> And, as a side note, why doesn't exist a Stream_access type in 
> Ada.Streams? I find somewhat inconvenient defining it in my packages and 
> converting here and there.

My opinion is that they left this for each concrete implementation of 
streams. For instance, Ada.Streams.Streams_IO has the Stream_Access type 
and GNAT.Sockets has it as well. You do not have to define it in your 
own packages.

Rodrigo