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From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Computer Language Shootout
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:31:23 +0200
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>>>>> "Robert" == Robert I Eachus <rieachus@attbi.com> writes:

Robert> The ARG is not going to require implementations to implement
Robert> Text_IO in that way, if we did, it would just make us look
Robert> silly.  Text_IO is a high level abstraction that is intended
Robert> to hide file layouts, protocols and buffering from the user.

Of course. However, I am still waiting to see any implementation of
the proposed function which is neither dangerous (Denial of Service by
feeding a string which is too long) nor inefficient (relying on stack
checks is definitely inefficient), and works without heavy
modifications to compilers (I do not think it is worth adding extra
complexity - and bugs - to the compiler for a convenience function
that can be written easily by the user).

  Sam
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