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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Introductory Presentations, especially aimed at C++ programmers!
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:08:34 -0700
Date: 2016-12-13T17:08:34-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <o2q2fi$b6k$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <o2ptvs$424$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk>

On 12/13/2016 03:50 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> Huh? This function has been in Ada.Text_IO since 2005. Why would anyone
> other than a compiler writer implement it?

Yes. Before that it was part of the PragmAda Reusable Components. See

Carter, J., "Variable-Length String Input in Ada", /Ada Letters/, 1989 May/Jun

available via

http://pragmada.x10hosting.com/papers.html

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine,
public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system,
and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
Monty Python's Life of Brian
80


  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-14  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-10 12:24 Introductory Presentations, especially aimed at C++ programmers! John McCabe
2009-07-10 21:49 ` jimmaureenrogers
2009-07-10 23:37   ` wwilson
2009-07-11  0:07     ` jimmaureenrogers
2009-07-12  4:00       ` wwilson
2009-07-11  8:15 ` Stephen Leake
2009-07-15  6:43 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2016-12-07 17:06 ` john
2016-12-07 17:44   ` Luke A. Guest
2016-12-07 18:35     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-07 23:03       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-12-07 23:47         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-08  0:08           ` Paul Rubin
2016-12-09 22:01             ` Randy Brukardt
2016-12-09 22:18               ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-13  0:53                 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-12-13  3:21                   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-13 21:15                     ` Robert A Duff
2016-12-13 22:05                       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-13 22:52                         ` Robert A Duff
2016-12-14  0:02                           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-13 23:05                         ` Randy Brukardt
2016-12-14  0:13                           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-14 22:48                             ` Randy Brukardt
2016-12-15  0:00                               ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-15 10:46                                 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-12-16  7:37                                   ` Paul Rubin
2016-12-15 20:14                                 ` Niklas Holsti
2016-12-15 20:27                                   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-15 21:04                                     ` Niklas Holsti
2016-12-15 21:40                                       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-16  7:41                                     ` Paul Rubin
2016-12-13 22:50                     ` Randy Brukardt
2016-12-14  0:08                       ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2016-12-14  1:01                         ` Shark8
2016-12-08  8:08           ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-12-08  8:38             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-12-08 10:25             ` Paul Rubin
2016-12-08 13:39               ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-12-09  1:30                 ` Paul Rubin
2016-12-09  8:31                   ` J-P. Rosen
2016-12-09  8:58                     ` Paul Rubin
2016-12-09  9:18                       ` J-P. Rosen
2016-12-09  9:27                         ` Paul Rubin
2016-12-09 10:49                           ` J-P. Rosen
2016-12-09 19:58                             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-12-09  8:35                   ` G.B.
2016-12-09  8:57                     ` Paul Rubin
2016-12-09 22:15                     ` Randy Brukardt
2016-12-09 21:58           ` Randy Brukardt
2016-12-08  8:23     ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-12-08 18:54   ` Adam Jensen
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