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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Little tutorial about streams
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:48:19 -0600, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> Clearly, the default implementation, being dependent on the machine and 
> compiler, can be useful only if the data is written and read by programs 
> compiled with the same compiler. If the data, for example, is to be sent 
> across the network and read by a program written in another language, 
> running on an unknown architecture, it is important for the programmer to 
> control the format of the data sent over the wire. Because of this exigence, 
> Ada allows the programmer to override S'Write (and the other stream-related 
> functions described in the following), using an attribute definition clause 
> (RM 13.3):

You can also mention chain code as a technique to implement S'Read/Write in
a platform independent way.

Of course one problem remains: the type of the stream I/O unit. A good
candidate might be Character'Read/Write. That should work in most cases.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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