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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: What's the cause of extra new line with Text_IO when program exit
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:54:45 -0700
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On 08/17/2013 10:54 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:17:46 -0700, Jeffrey Carter
> <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> declaimed the following:
>
>> While it is not defined by the language what happens to a File_Type when the
>> program ends [ARM A.7(6)], it does require that File_Type have finalization [ARM
>> A.10.1(86)]. A logical thing for this finalization to do is to make sure that
>> the last line is terminated, and it appears that your implementation does this.
>>
> 	Heck, isn't there some mention of also having an EOF marker written?

When you close a file, yes. It may not make sense to close standard output.

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