Re: Ada Streams usage (was Escape Sequences in Strings)

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <3A1939E1.AA643766@acm.org>,
  Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org> wrote:
> Which is fine - right up to the point where something in the
> message stream doesn't exactly line right up on an even byte
> boundary. Don't tell me that never happens, because it does.

So -- write your own stream protocols to handle this. I really
do not understand what you are grumbling about here. Obviously
different apps will have different data representation
requirements, which is why we leave data representation in
streams under program control. Yes, there is a default that
will be useful to many people, No, this default is not always
what you want. If the default is not what you want, do not use
it. Seems pretty straightforward to me.

You could argue for a different default (for example in GNAT,
we provide two different defaults), or a mechanism for more
easily selecting among defaults (that's a planned GNAT
enhancement), but other than that, I see no useful input here.



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