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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?

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Jeff Carter
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