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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: for S'Image use Func??
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:52:18 +0000 (UTC)
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Dmitry A. Kazakov expounded in
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> On Mon, 10 May 2010 15:48:19 +0000 (UTC), Warren wrote:
> 
>> Another thing that bugs me is that the Ada.Text_IO
>> will not return a LF character (like getchar() in C).
> 
> Why should it? It is a text I/O not a stream I/O.

But if I recall correctly, I also cannot get an
empty string as input. An empty string is still
valid input.

>> IMO, there needs to be a "modernized" Ada text I/O
>> facility. IOW something like a thick binding for the C 
>> I/O facilities but designed in Ada terms - not C terms.
> 
> Shudder. I am programming both in Ada and C. 

You're not the only one.

> C's I/O is a disaster, 

You have only listed an opinion when you don't 
list specifics.

> I
> do prefer Ada packages for I/O. Formatting/serialization is a totally
> unrelated issue. 

The problem is that Ada should have separated formatting
from I/O (as someone else here has said). C of course did
the same thing, except that they made formatting a string
easier.

> I wonder why people paying so much attention to
> admittedly broken and misplaced formatting of Ada.Text_IO in the times
> of GUIs. It won't work anyway. It is not a text anymore.

Do you enter a picture when login to your favourite GUI
system? A wave file for your password?  We still depend 
a lot on Text. Look at any database- it's not all about
blobs.

Warren