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Subject: Re: why access parameter in stream attributes to begin with, instead
 of in or in/out ?
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On Monday, June 11, 2018 at 3:49:28 PM UTC-6, Mehdi Saada wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I wondered why in Ichibiah's design, in the beginning, stream have been made to work with access types/access parameters ?
Hard to say; his design [Ada83] didn't have streams.

> I could have imagined that the attributes would work with a in/out stream parameter, and stream(blabla) would give an object of stream type.
> I don't know if storing streams' access values for later use is common, one would just have to add .all when appropriate...
Good questions, I want to say it's not common to pop access-type via streams, but maybe I'm just unadventurous.