Re: Pageless Text_IO

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

Actually I agree page breaks are a nuisance. It was a big
mistake to have Text_IO know anything about pages this way,
apart from being able to generate a page mark.

A form parameter  PAGE_BREAKS => NO  would be a handy
addition to Text_IO, it would say simply that on input
new page characters were not treated specially in any
way, just treated as characters if encountered, and
on output, New_Page generates such a character but has
no other effect.

Needs a bit more detailed woring out, but sounds quite
practical.


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