Re: Byte streams

[Gautier <gautier@fakeaddress.nil>]

You seem to bump against the "strong-typing vs. mixed data stream" issue that 
Ada 95 (and later) solves with Ada.Streams. No need to define i/o for every 
type, no need of unchecked_conversion; and unconstrained types are also 
supported iirc.
Look at the 'Read, 'Write, 'Input, 'Output ( a bit of search gives... 
http://www.adaic.com/standards/95lrm/html/RM-13-13-2.html )

Here is an example of a custom input stream, from a zip file:

http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/gdm/uza_html/test_unz_streams__adb.htm

Maybe you are looking at something else, but I have the impression that you'll 
like these streams...
HTH
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