Re: Exclusive file access

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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>> As long as you don't use Wide_String—if you do use that, things get 
>> rather messy.
>
> Both are messy. Character and Ada.Text_IO was designed prior to Unicode.
> Later amendments were futile attempts to repair what needed no repair.

I would have said: "Later amendments were futile attempts to repair what 
needed replacement." since we have no choice but to support modern character 
sets in Ada. But the way to do that isn't by abandoning strong typing 
(Ada.Strings.UTF_Encoding) or by duplicating everything many times 
(Wide_Wide_String, which naturally leads to Wide_Wide_Text_IO which leads to 
Wide_Wide_Open which leads to Wide_Wide_Madness).

Since a sensible solution can't be done compatibility, we needed to start 
over -- but that's never had appropriate traction.

                                Randy.