From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Text_IO from a stream
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:49:59 +0200
Date: 2008-04-01T09:49:59+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d8n359u8u22c.gbd9da0w938c$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 47f14f8c_2@news.bluewin.ch
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:54:35 +0200, Gautier wrote:
> Dmitry A. Kazakov:
>
> Meanwhile (#ada irc...) there seems to be a nice solution:
>
> http://jesselang.com/software/streams_text_io/
Yes.
>>> Well, I think I'll switch to a binary format...
>>
>> I would do that too. Also I would override 'Read and 'Write in order to
>> make it platform-independent. (Stream_Element should be replaced by
>> octets.)
>
> No problem with that - there is already a framework in that package (for other
> files) that sends things byte-per-byte in a deterministic endianess; floats are
> split/merged with certain a Float_portable_binary_transfer package.
No, I meant your idea of a text-oriented stream. So Float'Write would put
Float in a human-readable format (instead of Put). But of course, a binary
transfer is always preferable.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2008-03-31 15:27 Text_IO from a stream gautier_niouzes
2008-03-31 15:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-03-31 16:05 ` gautier_niouzes
2008-03-31 16:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-03-31 19:17 ` Gautier
2008-03-31 19:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-03-31 20:54 ` Gautier
2008-04-01 7:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2008-04-01 20:49 ` Simon Wright
2008-04-02 7:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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