Re: Mneson announcement and help request

["Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>]

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message
news:xK-dnZHKcKOszSPdRVn-ug@megapath.net...
> Well, yes, because End_of_File for Text_IO is very expensive (it has to do
> lookahead of as many as two characters, and doing so makes later Gets
> expensive as well). But "End_of_File" (or indeed any function call) misses
> the point.

My point was that EOF is relatively cheap compared to raising the exception
not that it is cheap per se. And if GNAT and ObjectAda (the 2 compilers I
have any source for) are typical of most implementations then this is
certainly
true. OA even includes lots of local instantiations of the sort that MAA was
finding very slow (assuming OA is also "slow" in this regard).

Cheers

-- Martin