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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Ada Streams usage (was Escape Sequences in Strings)
Date: 2000/11/19
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In article <3A17C7AA.84445608@telepath.com>,
  Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
> Marin David Condic wrote:
>
> > It is *almost* a really wonderful thing to have Streams. :-)

> That just about says it all in one sentence.

I must say I find the attitude that streams are not quite what
you want because the representations are not well defined to
be a bit peculiar. The language has NEVER been in the business
of defining default representations. If you want a particular
representation, you need to say so.

Note that for people who *really* *do* want a completely well
defined target-independent stream representation standard, the
XDR package in GLADE provides exactly this for Ada 95 streams.


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