From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Ada.Storage_IO: applied example?
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:51:21 +0200
Date: 2012-10-24T13:51:21+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.wmolvvofule2fv@cardamome> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1idlxs32flh5u.fi8rvodiy7c2.dlg@40tude.net
Le Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:28:00 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a écrit:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:49:02 -0700 (PDT), AdaMagica wrote:
>
>> See AARM A.9(1.a):
>> Reason: This package exists to allow the portable construction of
>> user-defined direct-access-oriented input-output packages.
>
> portable construction of X /= construction of portable X
>
> The package cannot be used to write files in a way that an application
> compiled by one compiler X1 under OS Y1 could write a file readable for
> compiler X2 under OS Y2.
>
> In order to be portable they should have defined the exact representation
> of the object in the file. Yes, nobody would do that, but then they
> should
> not include useless packages into the standard either.
What about private persistent storage?
--
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-23 19:42 Ada.Storage_IO: applied example? Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-10-23 20:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-10-23 20:56 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-10-23 21:21 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-10-23 21:02 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-10-24 7:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-10-24 5:03 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-10-24 7:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-10-24 9:49 ` AdaMagica
2012-10-24 10:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-10-24 11:51 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) [this message]
2012-10-24 12:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-10-24 14:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
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