From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Doing Ada right?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:06:23 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2015-07-28T00:06:23-07:00 [thread overview]
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On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 12:42:26 AM UTC-6, Egil H H wrote:
> On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 8:42:19 PM UTC+2, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> > I've always wondered why Ada.Text_IO
> > overloads things with and without a File parameter, rather than having one
> > version with the File parameter defaulted to Current_Input.
>
> Wild guess:
> It seems logical for File to be first parameter when writing to/from a file,
> so we need two versions in order to write Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line("Hello World");
> instead of having to write Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line(Item => "Hello World");
Well, if it was Put( Item : String; To : File ) it would still read well... though maybe best if it was called "write" in that case.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-27 15:17 Doing Ada right? EGarrulo
2015-07-27 16:32 ` David Botton
2015-07-27 18:28 ` EGarrulo
2015-07-27 18:42 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-07-28 6:42 ` Egil H H
2015-07-28 7:06 ` Shark8 [this message]
2015-07-28 17:38 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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