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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!paganini.bofh.team!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:26:31 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [ANN] List_Image v0.2.0 Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 15:26:30 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <575826a1-c983-49aa-95e2-54048f6b7b5b@googlegroups.com> <3b72aae1-7ff4-48a9-a154-f17cd6784334@googlegroups.com> <7f5fec97-6ae6-4833-87df-77aac5a8e4ff@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.73.118.119 X-Trace: sv3-JWS43t3qbaOVbwz4PCX6jZTi165BGKTEpyEq2fwG4fCCwm4GppCwNZFg+yl4BlbD4Yr9IX33IU8PQdo!jf6xBm3EfU58pClxg3raoaP8qPVVHmh2uioriSMyXjHJH4QsI/tg704lAz2Ol6M4ZokCFG0F4SCY!vM088DKGxKGvrhQ6PhZqAT4CO/cN X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2820 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50264 Date: 2018-02-01T15:26:30-05:00 List-Id: On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 10:45:09 -0800 (PST), bozovic.bojan@gmail.com declaimed the following: >No I completely understand your point but OpenVMS isn't a souvenir yet. Now, I haven't used it, and I don't know if portable EOL character would break something there, I gave 0.02$ worthless or not, but that system was much more used in 80s and 90s, even though we didn't see portable EOL character in Ada 83/95. I hope someone to explain this situation as end of line character in strings is useful. And how will this support, say, a file created under Linux, which is being processed under Windows? One either has to be able to specify the EOL convention for each file, convert the EOL convention before using the file, or have the language attempt to determine the EOL convention at run-time and make the suitable adjustments. In Python, a file opened for "text" mode, running on Windows, has in text converted to during output -- on Linux, there is no real difference between text and binary, is not expanded during output. And if one does not know the convention, there is "universal newline" mode, which attempts to guess the convention based upon what is found within the first few blocks of the file. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/