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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Text_IO for other standard types
Date: 1998/01/14
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Dale said

<<Having looked at the body of Text_IO once I have often thought
that a

        Pragma No_Stupid_Text_IO_Stuff;

or perhaps more sensibly...

        Pragma Restriction (Simple_Text_IO);


which would enforce no page/line counting in your code, would
be a much welcome addition to the language. This allows people
to maintain old code, but lets us throw away all that unneeded
baggage (did anyone every actually use line/page counting enough
to make it worthwhile?)
>>

It would make a nice student project to redesign the interface to remove
the page/line nonsense, then recode the body (it is more than jsut
removing code, you can in some cases do things multiple characters at
a time which are now done one character at a time because of the page/line
stuff, you can also remove a lot of junk used to support strange cases.

Then the project would measure the speed gain. I share Dale's suspicion
that it would be substantial.