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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Replacement for Text_IO? (was Re: C bug of the day)
Date: 17 Jun 2003 07:53:33 -0500
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In article <dstanbro-69939B.21425517062003@mec2.bigpond.net.au>, Dale Stanbrough <dstanbro@bigpond.net.au> writes:
> Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
>> What's wrong with streams?
> 
> Streams seem to be at the wrong level of abstraction.
> If you want to write out text files from an Ada program, how you 
> do you an end of line character portably using streams?

If you want to do _portable_ text IO, you should not make the mistake
of thinking that the end of line is represented by a character.

> Processing text files in text_io is really very simple stuff, and
> easy to read (and it could be better if there were a function
> get_line...). I'm not sure that Streams would make for easy reading,
> unless it gets layered with a host independent Text_IO like feature
> (perhaps we could call it Ada.Next_IO ? :-)

If it were host-independent, the resulting files would not be compatible
with other programming languages on some platforms.