From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.182.236.197 with SMTP id uw5mr33330282obc.32.1438065745175; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 23:42:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.47.68 with SMTP id l62mr517322qga.42.1438065745012; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 23:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Path: buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!f3no3829815igg.0!news-out.google.com!4ni82416qgh.1!nntp.google.com!69no2364815qgl.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 23:42:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=193.71.180.114; posting-account=uulyKwoAAAA86DO0ODu--rZtbje8Sytn NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.71.180.114 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <971df5a1-ca20-484e-b298-21485e243344@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Doing Ada right? From: Egil H H Injection-Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 06:42:25 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: number.nntp.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:194372 Date: 2015-07-27T23:42:24-07:00 List-Id: 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"); -- ~egilhh