Re: Computer Language Shootout

["Matthew Heaney" <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net>]

"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com> wrote in message
news:3F149243.80304@attbi.com...
> Matthew Heaney wrote:
>
>  > It's not necessary to pass the object Standard_Input explicitly to
>  > End_Of_Line and Get_Line, because those operations are overloaded to
>  > read from standard input by default.
>
> I know, I'm a language lawyer.  But I hardly ever claim to be anything
> else.  I am sure you meant that these operations are overloaded to use
> Current_Output, which defaults to Standard_Output. ;-)

Actually, I meant End_Of_File, not End_Of_Line.

Do you really mean that End_Of_File and Get_Line use Current_Output?  I
thought they used Current_Input.

Aside: I don't ever use End_Of_Line, since the locution

  if Last < Line'Last then

conveys all the information I need wrt whether the entire line has been
consumed.  What is End_Of_Line buying me that the idiom above does not?

-Matt