Re: Sending Variable Length Messages with GNAT.Sockets

[Adrien Plisson <aplisson-news@stochastique.net>]

Jeff C wrote:
>> also, i can think of no way to send "x" bytes of a type and not the 
>> entire thing, unless writing your own stream input and output procedures.
>>
> 
> Note that the last statement is almost written as if this is a bad 
> thing. (And I suspect someone that tried it for the first time might 
> feel that way)...But, there is really nothing wrong with writing your 
> own input and output procedures. It is mildly painful once and then the 
> rest of the code ends up pretty clean.

sorry for not being very friendly in this statement, but it was not my 
intention to let people feel that way.

personnaly i think using well-defined custom stream attributes allows 
a more language independant use of streams, and as such a better 
interoperability between softwares. so it is clearly a good thing.

-- 
rien