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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Text_IO from a stream
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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.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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