Re: Get_Line problem (GNAT bug?)

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <wccfybrtj5h.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>, Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:

> I think the Unix idea -- "line terminator (or separator?) = a particular
> character" -- is a pretty convenient model.  It's certainly convenient
> for parsing input text: read one char at a time, and deal with it,
> treating end-of-line as one possible case.  E.g., an Ada compiler
> typically works that way.

It constrains the ASCII values that can be in a record.  That may not
be important for compilers but I write programs where record boundaries
different from "new line" is quite useful in the output files.

> To represent end-of-line as TWO characters is just plain stupid.

I will raise (lower) your TWO characters and say that inline record
boundaries are foolish.