From: ev_remove_this_ans@evans.pgh.pa.us (Arthur Evans Jr)
Subject: Re: Pageless Text_IO
Date: 1999/11/16
Date: 1999-11-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ev_remove_this_ans-1611991644460001@192.168.1.254> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 80s3fj$8c6$1@nnrp1.deja.com
In article <80s3fj$8c6$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar
<robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> Yes, and in general trying to use Text_IO's view of what a
> line number means is probably a poor idea. For example it
> would not work at all on Ada source (since VT ends a line
> for the Ada source program, but not for Text_IO!)
What a curious statement! VT may indeed signify end of a source
line in some particular Ada implementation (GNAT?), but it surely
does not in general. As Robert himself has repeatedly pointed out
in this forum, the standard is silent on how to represent an Ada
source program in a computer.
Art Evans
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-16 0:00 Pageless Text_IO David Starner
1999-11-16 0:00 ` DuckE
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-16 0:00 ` John Herro
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-16 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr [this message]
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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