From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada.Text_IO.Create
Date: 19 Feb 2006 15:49:34 -0600
Date: 2006-02-19T15:49:34-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <GiF0Di0uFg5M@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: fV3Kf.1931$VI6.308@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net
In article <fV3Kf.1931$VI6.308@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>, "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com> writes:
> Martin Dowie wrote:
>
>> That's the subprogram I'd prefer to have an extra "Create_If_Absent :
>> Boolean := False" parameter. And, yes, I know it control coupling (bad)
>> but IMHO, I would find the code cleaner.
>
> I'm not sure I see the value of this. If you're opening for reading, a
> Create_If_Absent would create an empty file; End_Of_File would be true
> immediately. If you're opening for writing, aren't you going to overwrite the
> contents anyway? In that case, doesn't Create do what you want?
Depending on your operating system, there is a difference between
creating a new version of a file for write and opening the existing
version for write.
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-17 23:13 invalid parameter list isaac2004
2006-02-18 6:02 ` jimmaureenrogers
[not found] ` <tfadv19pqf17h3prdhquk3e5f30j6vhdhl@4ax.com>
2006-02-18 8:04 ` isaac2004
2006-02-18 14:34 ` Björn Persson
2006-02-18 21:19 ` isaac2004
2006-02-18 23:31 ` Björn Persson
2006-02-18 23:34 ` Martin Dowie
2006-02-19 0:06 ` isaac2004
[not found] ` <dmlfv11b4qagaf3gec853k9on191576gqc@4ax.com>
2006-02-19 4:06 ` isaac2004
[not found] ` <uavfv1pjdorpim6lpu8sjfdlq4lmmn1jes@4ax.com>
2006-02-19 16:21 ` Björn Persson
2006-02-19 15:54 ` Björn Persson
2006-02-19 0:15 ` Ada.Text_IO.Create (was: invalid parameter list) Björn Persson
2006-02-19 8:14 ` Ada.Text_IO.Create Martin Dowie
2006-02-19 19:45 ` Ada.Text_IO.Create Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-02-19 21:49 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2006-02-20 6:09 ` Ada.Text_IO.Create isaac2004
2006-02-20 6:43 ` Ada.Text_IO.Create Gautier
[not found] ` <3stiv1l39144oscbs5he2v6h5uvfmli03q@4ax.com>
2006-02-21 22:15 ` Ada.Text_IO.Create isaac2004
2006-02-22 7:45 ` Range error (was: Ada.Text_IO.Create) Björn Persson
2006-02-22 8:27 ` Range error Björn Persson
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