Re: Text_IO for other standard types

[Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>]

Robert Dewar writes:

[...but are rather the effect of a much
 higher level semantics on the Ada side, e.g. line/page counting."

Having looked at the body of Text_IO once I have often thought
that a 

	Pragma No_Stupid_Text_IO_Stuff;

or perhaps more sensibly...

	Pragma Restriction (Simple_Text_IO);


which would enforce no page/line counting in your code, would
be a much welcome addition to the language. This allows people
to maintain old code, but lets us throw away all that unneeded
baggage (did anyone every actually use line/page counting enough
to make it worthwhile?)


Dale