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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,c689b55786a9f2bd X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.mv.net!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: for S'Image use Func?? Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 17:36:04 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <4be417b4$0$6992$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1273268152 6652 192.74.137.71 (7 May 2010 21:35:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 21:35:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eGsa/YZreiKOMBxzfG29f+S5x2Q= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11401 Date: 2010-05-07T17:36:04-04:00 List-Id: "Randy Brukardt" writes: > It doesn't work very well, either, if you are outputting to a message box or > to a log manager: in both cases the entire message string has to be passed > at once. (That's the case in virtually all of my newer programs.) Not many > real programs do much output to Standard Output. Right, that's exactly what I meant when I said elsewhere in this thread that it's a good idea to separate formatting from output. Sometimes you want "format some stuff and dump it immediately to a file". Other times you want "format some stuff" (and then sort the messages and grind upon them etc.) and then much later "send to log manager" or whatever. - Bob