Ada2005 (was Re: reading a text file into a string

[Peter Hermann <ica2ph@sinus.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Robert I. Eachus <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote:
> For this reason, I find myself contructing or using a Get_Line FUNCTION 
> inside a loop and a declare block:
> 
> while not End_of_Line(Somefile) loop
>    declare
>       Buffer: String := Get_Line(Somefile);
>    begin
>       -- process buffer
>    exception
>       ...
>    end;
> end loop;

There is no compelling reason why such a FUNCTION get_line
should not be in package specification Ada.text_io of Ada2005.
Or did I miss something?


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