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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: Strings and reading from a file
Date: 1999/05/14
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Keith Thompson wrote in message ...
>"Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>[...]
>> While were at improving it, what about:
>> function Next_Line
>>   (File : in Ada.Text_IO.File_Type :=  Ada.Text_Io.Standard_Input;
>>    Guessed_Length : Positive := 256) return String is
>[...]
>
>Shouldn't the default for File be Ada.Text_IO.Current_Input rather
>than Ada.Text_IO.Standard_Input?  (Not that I've ever understood the
>need for the distinction, but we might as well be consistent.)
>
Current_Input is switchable from file to file by a running program,
whereas Standard_Input is fixed from the program's perspective.