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Subject: Re: Doing Ada right?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 10:38:28 -0700
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On 07/27/2015 11:42 PM, Egil H H wrote:
> On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 8:42:19 PM UTC+2, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
>> I've always wondered why Ada.Text_IO
>> overloads things with and without a File parameter, rather than having one
>> version with the File parameter defaulted to Current_Input.
> 
> Wild guess: 
> It seems logical for File to be first parameter when writing to/from a file, 
> so we need two versions in order to write Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line("Hello World");
> instead of having to write Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line(Item => "Hello World");

If I were doing it, File, having a default, would be the 2nd parameter.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"There's no messiah here. There's a mess all right, but no messiah."
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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