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Subject: Re: GNAT.Serial_Communication and Streams
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> I don't see anything wrong with the original code. Stream attributes
> not to be trusted in general. An explicit conversion is clearer and
> cleaner, IMO.

GNAT used to write strings to streams character-by-character, which is
seriously non-optimal (practically; if an exception occurs, who cares on
which character it happened?!)

But if you can't trust your compiler to write a string to a stream, what
can you trust it to do?

I wholly agree with "trust, but verify", though!