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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Streams and Concurrency
Date: 1999/01/04
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In article <76qb23$ba3$1@platane.wanadoo.fr>,
  "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Of course not, but that particular exemple used
> Text_Streams and I took this opportunity to remind people
> of this often overlooked problem. Why, if it works on
> most compilers ? Because I hate concealed design
> decisions. Choosing between portability and efficiency
> (or in this case, ease of programming) is a trade-off,
> and it is perfectly acceptable to disregard portability
> as long as it is a concious design decision. But as you
> noticed, often people make this choice without
> being aware of it, and *this* is (IMHO) very bad.

But of course when you call a foreign language routine of
any kind AT ALL, you are implementation dependent. This is
the only issue we are talking about here!

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