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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Get_Line
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:26:32 -0500
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"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
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> 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