From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,2a77c9c618b7919 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.204.145.140 with SMTP id d12mr5642860bkv.6.1351391226794; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 19:27:06 -0700 (PDT) Path: q13ni70552wii.0!nntp.google.com!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!216.196.110.144.MISMATCH!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border4.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.panservice.it!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada.Storage_IO: applied example? Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:51:21 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <1idlxs32flh5u.fi8rvodiy7c2.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: qMb93YQAAEXAn86i0hBe/g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.02 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2012-10-24T13:51:21+02:00 List-Id: Le Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:28:00 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov = a =C3=A9crit: > 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 /=3D 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 fo= r > compiler X2 under OS Y2. > > In order to be portable they should have defined the exact representat= ion > 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? -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity