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: 103376,6bf481efd29cf77b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-12 06:31:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Behavior of Stream Attributes On Access Types. Date: 12 Jun 2002 06:31:32 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0206120531.56c285a8@posting.google.com> References: <4519e058.0206110547.526d2369@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1023888692 29514 127.0.0.1 (12 Jun 2002 13:31:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Jun 2002 13:31:32 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25792 Date: 2002-06-12T13:31:32+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:... > Yeah, I just can't think of many cases where I want to write something into > a stream and not have it persist across executions or partitions or > whatever, wherein the address starts becoming a totally useless piece of > information. In the same execution? Why wouldn't I just keep referencing the > data structure I've already got? I suppose the language needs to do For the language-defined streams, which are files, it would indeed be pretty pointless. However, in the past I've created stream types that lived in RAM and acted as buffers. For those, it could be useful (wasn't in my case, but it could be for someone). -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - (temporarily down)