From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Get_Immediate warning, (was: How to get a character?)
Date: 1999/04/16
Date: 1999-04-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pv55m887.fsf@mheaney.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7f5409$od5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> writes:
> THe problem of Text_IO in interactive environments is
> well understood, and it was a quite deliberate decision
> NOT to try to address it in the Ada 95 design. The general
> feeling was that it was too broken to get exactly right,
> and not broken enough to be worth a major kludging up.
> At the last minute the Get_Immediate and Flush bandaids
> were applied to stop the patient from bleeding to death :-)
> But plastic surgery was beyond the budget!
Can you elaborate on the "well understood problems" with interactive
Text_IO?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-04-16 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-10 0:00 How to get a character? Ben Barth
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-10 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Get_Immediate warning, (was: How to get a character?) JS
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-13 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-04-14 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-14 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-04-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1999-04-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-18 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-04-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-14 0:00 ` JS
1999-04-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-10 0:00 ` How to get a character? David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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