From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Get_Line
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:26:32 -0500
Date: 2002-10-30T19:26:32-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <apptha$2q5u$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcc3cqn35wu.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
news:wcc3cqn35wu.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
> But isn't the *real* problem that the design of Text_IO is broken? For
> example, why is there no Get_Line function:
>
> function Get_Line(...) return String;
>
> that returns the entire contents of the next line, no matter how long it
> is, and without fussing about with fixed-length (i.e. wrong length!)
> buffers?
I wouldn't say broken. Do you really want Ada.Text_IO to contain functions
with side-effects?
Put_Line (Get_Line & Get_Line); -- Do you want to encourage this in the
standard?
-CRM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-31 0:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-29 20:24 Get_Line Justin Birtwell
2002-10-29 20:55 ` Get_Line David C. Hoos
2002-10-30 1:30 ` Get_Line Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-30 13:33 ` Get_Line Justin Birtwell
2002-10-30 14:40 ` Get_Line Preben Randhol
2002-10-30 17:09 ` Get_Line Jean-Pierre Rosen
2002-10-30 18:08 ` Get_Line Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-30 22:42 ` Get_Line Robert A Duff
2002-10-31 0:26 ` Chad R. Meiners [this message]
2002-10-31 0:44 ` Get_Line Robert A Duff
2002-10-31 10:32 ` Get_Line John English
2002-10-31 11:30 ` Get_Line Preben Randhol
2002-10-31 13:10 ` Get_Line John English
2002-10-31 17:39 ` Get_Line Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-10-31 21:46 ` Get_Line Chad R. Meiners
2002-11-01 16:59 ` Get_Line Robert A Duff
2002-11-01 21:04 ` Get_Line Chad R. Meiners
2002-11-01 23:32 ` Get_Line Matthew Heaney
2002-11-02 0:28 ` Get_Line Chad R. Meiners
2002-10-31 8:53 ` Get_Line Preben Randhol
2002-10-31 18:04 ` Get_Line Jeffrey Carter
2002-11-01 11:18 ` Get_Line Preben Randhol
2002-10-30 14:44 ` Get_Line Preben Randhol
2002-10-31 21:55 ` Get_Line Matthew Heaney
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1999-07-02 0:00 GET LINE babefan
1999-07-02 0:00 ` czgrr
1998-06-05 0:00 get_line Steve Dyrdahl
1998-06-05 0:00 ` get_line Samuel Mize
1998-06-17 0:00 ` get_line Hans Marqvardsen
1998-06-18 0:00 ` get_line John McCabe
1998-06-21 0:00 ` get_line Robert Dewar
1998-06-06 0:00 ` get_line Dale Stanbrough
1998-06-06 0:00 ` get_line Matthew Heaney
1998-06-07 0:00 ` get_line Dale Stanbrough
1998-06-06 0:00 ` get_line Matthew Heaney
1998-06-18 0:00 ` get_line Robert I. Eachus
1998-06-06 0:00 ` get_line Robert Dewar
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