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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c2cd81e4fa47ca1a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!198.186.190.250.MISMATCH!transit3.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-east.rr.com!news.rr.com!news-server.columbus.rr.com!cyclone2.kc.rr.com!news2.kc.rr.com!tornado.socal.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New_Page References: <4I52h.1046417$084.952815@attbi_s22> From: Keith Thompson Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:c7XqP6a0EJggBFRd+yg1T7Ld9Q0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:57:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.80.183.54 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: tornado.socal.rr.com 1162501038 75.80.183.54 (Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:57:18 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:57:18 PST Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7336 Date: 2006-11-02T20:57:18+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff writes: > "Jeffrey R. Carter" writes: > >> In short, New_Page is device-specific, should probably not have been >> included in Text_IO, and should be avoided in portable SW. > > New_Line isn't exactly portable, either. ;-) New_Line produces an end-of-line marker. The way this is represented varies from one system to another, but this is a *very* well-known issue, and translating from one format to another is extremely common. New_Page produces an end-of-page marker. Most systems don't even have such a thing. I agree that all the page-oriented stuff should have been left out of the language. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.