From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: Ada.Text_IO.Create
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:45:15 GMT
Date: 2006-02-19T19:45:15+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fV3Kf.1931$VI6.308@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dt99e1$36b$2@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>
Martin Dowie wrote:
> That's the subprogram I'd prefer to have an extra "Create_If_Absent :
> Boolean := False" parameter. And, yes, I know it control coupling (bad)
> but IMHO, I would find the code cleaner.
I'm not sure I see the value of this. If you're opening for reading, a
Create_If_Absent would create an empty file; End_Of_File would be true
immediately. If you're opening for writing, aren't you going to overwrite the
contents anyway? In that case, doesn't Create do what you want?
--
Jeff Carter
"Perfidious English mouse-dropping hoarders."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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2006-02-17 23:13 invalid parameter list isaac2004
2006-02-18 6:02 ` jimmaureenrogers
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2006-02-18 8:04 ` isaac2004
2006-02-18 14:34 ` Björn Persson
2006-02-18 21:19 ` isaac2004
2006-02-18 23:31 ` Björn Persson
2006-02-18 23:34 ` Martin Dowie
2006-02-19 0:06 ` isaac2004
[not found] ` <dmlfv11b4qagaf3gec853k9on191576gqc@4ax.com>
2006-02-19 4:06 ` isaac2004
[not found] ` <uavfv1pjdorpim6lpu8sjfdlq4lmmn1jes@4ax.com>
2006-02-19 16:21 ` Björn Persson
2006-02-19 15:54 ` Björn Persson
2006-02-19 0:15 ` Ada.Text_IO.Create (was: invalid parameter list) Björn Persson
2006-02-19 8:14 ` Ada.Text_IO.Create Martin Dowie
2006-02-19 19:45 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2006-02-19 21:49 ` Ada.Text_IO.Create Larry Kilgallen
2006-02-20 6:09 ` Ada.Text_IO.Create isaac2004
2006-02-20 6:43 ` Ada.Text_IO.Create Gautier
[not found] ` <3stiv1l39144oscbs5he2v6h5uvfmli03q@4ax.com>
2006-02-21 22:15 ` Ada.Text_IO.Create isaac2004
2006-02-22 7:45 ` Range error (was: Ada.Text_IO.Create) Björn Persson
2006-02-22 8:27 ` Range error Björn Persson
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