Re: Usage of Ada.Streams

["Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

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David C. Hoos, Sr. a �crit dans le message ...
>If you want to have the tags in the stream (so that the specific
>types can be distinguished when reading back), you need to use:
>Data'Class'Output(Str, Data_Pointer.all);
>
>Then, to read them back, you would say:
>Data_Pointer := new Data'Class'(Data'Class'Input (str));
>
>That statement allocates memory for the object, and initializes it
>with the value read from the stream.
>

That's correct, but note that it is not necessary to use pointer under
Ada95.

Data'Class'Output (Str, Object);

(with Object whatever instance in the class heriachy).

New_Object : constant Data'Class := Data'Class'Input (Str);

Pascal.

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