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Subject: Re: Doing Ada right?
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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.