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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6c383a046f41e91 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!194.25.134.126.MISMATCH!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Text_IO from a stream Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <0465edf8-7272-43c8-82fd-fcae7cf0ef11@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <1y2oi69ev939v.1xugoel9fadnb$.dlg@40tude.net> <0c9ab8b7-a666-4fd2-a876-dca818ad5461@c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> <17unr8ffxzcm.1ee1ucd0fwd1q$.dlg@40tude.net> <47f138b6$1_5@news.bluewin.ch> <1rmypswe6uyhs.10fy5p7ytb4os$.dlg@40tude.net> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:36:53 +0200 Message-ID: <7onrsdlpoe92$.1rd1d6sdrdhnr$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 02 Apr 2008 09:36:53 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 905408af.newsspool4.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=oJoJ:n:CKT@Aa;:RKVJ>LE4IUKBZQMbb:9mL?L[6LHn;2LCVN7enW;^6ZC`DIXm65S@:3>O[NU8oSPU8dC X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20753 Date: 2008-04-02T09:36:53+02:00 List-Id: On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:49:41 +0100, Simon Wright wrote: > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > >> I would override 'Read and 'Write in order to make it >> platform-independent. (Stream_Element should be replaced by octets.) > > How would that particular change help platform independence? Because then you would control both the representation (T'Write) and the medium (octet of bits, assuming it atomic as usual). -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de