From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: End_Of_Line, End_Of_File
Date: 1996/12/02
Date: 1996-12-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.849533874@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.SUN.3.95.961202104027.355A-100000@tsc4
Fernando says
"I've solved the problem using instantiating Sequential_IO fot character
type and looking for chacarcter.latin_1.lf
"
Yes, you can do this, but it is likely to be gruesomely inefficient. It
is much better to use Stream_IO, reading a decent chunk of data at a time.
In addition, there is no guarantee that instantiation Sequential_IO will
work, nowhere in the RM does it guarantee anything about the format of
sequential_io files, and if they happen to correspond to some externally
written file, as opposed to a file written by sequential_io, that's good
luck, but cannot be counted on.
In practice, with almost all (all?) implementations of Ada, this
particular instantiation of sequential_io will "work", but it is still
a poor way of doing things!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-12-02 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-30 0:00 End_Of_Line, End_Of_File Fernando Tricas
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Fernando Tricas
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Peter Amey
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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