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From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: Strings and reading from a file
Date: 1999/05/14
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"Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> writes:
[...]
> While were at improving it, what about:
> function Next_Line
>   (File : in Ada.Text_IO.File_Type :=  Ada.Text_Io.Standard_Input;
>    Guessed_Length : Positive := 256) return String is
[...]

Shouldn't the default for File be Ada.Text_IO.Current_Input rather
than Ada.Text_IO.Standard_Input?  (Not that I've ever understood the
need for the distinction, but we might as well be consistent.)

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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