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From: "Nick Roberts" <nick.roberts@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada2005 (was Re: reading a text file into a string
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 18:22:10 +0100
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On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:35:30 +0100, Martin Dowie  
<martin.dowie@baesystems.com> wrote:

>> AI95-301 suggests: I/O operations on unbounded strings are
>> provided in a new child package of Ada.Text_IO.
>>
>> But I'm not sure if this one will get in.
>
> Its current state is "Amendment 200Y", so I'd imagine its
> chances are "quite good"! :-)

Hooray! I hope it does.

I notice this amendment does also include a string function
to get a line of text. Although I usually dislike functions
with side effects (in a procedural language), I think this
one makes sense.

-- 
Nick Roberts