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: 103376,24d7acf9b853aac8 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: S-expression I/O in Ada Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:35:45 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <547afa6b-731e-475f-a7f2-eaefefb25861@k8g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <1qk2k63kzh7yv$.3jgc403xcqdw$.dlg@40tude.net> <8ae8e899-9eef-4c8c-982e-bfdfc10072f1@h17g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <258zlxrv4fn6.1vszho1rtmf48$.dlg@40tude.net> <984db477-973c-4a66-9bf6-e5348c9b95f2@n19g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <46866b8yq8nn$.151lqiwa0y2k6.dlg@40tude.net> <13b07f2c-2f35-43e0-83c5-1b572c65d323@y11g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <13tpf7ya3evig$.h05p3x08059s$.dlg@40tude.net> <1lhdkikeh2sif.bd3pon3knbv8.dlg@40tude.net> <7027f0c6-d909-428c-ab8d-6ba1bd7ff4b2@x21g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <1424bzz54867w.soj1iq72wkwl$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1281371732 9152 192.74.137.71 (9 Aug 2010 16:35:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 16:35:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1l6K8uzA4MVU3D7N5M13k1lrr2o= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12987 Date: 2010-08-09T12:35:45-04:00 List-Id: Simon Wright writes: > Natacha Kerensikova writes: > >> and I don't know either how to deal with cases where Stream_Element is >> not an octet. > > By ignoring them, I think! Are there any such cases in the real world? There are machines in the embedded world where Storage_Element is not 8 bits. But any machine that's hooked up to any sort of network is going to be talking Octets, I think. Does anybody know of counterexamples? Perhaps Stream_Element should have been defined as exactly 8 bits. Perhaps it should have been called "Octet". - Bob