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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Ada.Text_IO.Create
Date: 19 Feb 2006 15:49:34 -0600
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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.