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From: Frank Buss <fb@frank-buss.de>
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Subject: Re: quiz for Sequential_IO Read
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 14:43:28 +0200
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On 09/03/2017 02:26 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2017-09-03 13:01, Frank Buss wrote:
>> What does this program output?
>
> Garbage.
>
>> with Ada.Sequential_IO;
>> with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
>>
>> procedure Hello is
>>
>>     type Byte is range 0..255;
>>
>>     package Byte_IO is new Ada.Sequential_IO(Byte);
>
> Ada.Streams.Stream_IO is for the purpose.
>
> (Sequential_IO is practically never used)

I started learning Ada today, where can I read about good coding 
practice, and how would the example look like with Stream_IO, and maybe 
even a correct version?

I read about Sequential_IO in the Ada Programming wikibook, where it is 
recommended for homogeneous binary data:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Input_Output

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