From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3c99788a4ac63037 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: ev_remove_this_ans@evans.pgh.pa.us (Arthur Evans Jr) Subject: Re: Pageless Text_IO Date: 1999/11/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 549440428 References: <80qarp$9qe1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <80qo6v$926$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <80qqae$8a22@news.cis.okstate.edu> <80s3fj$8c6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@stargate.net X-Trace: news.sgi.net 942788686 209.166.147.233 (Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:44:46 EST) Organization: Stargate Industries, LLC NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:44:46 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <80s3fj$8c6$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar 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