Re: Text_IO from a stream

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:49:41 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> 
>> I would override 'Read and 'Write in order to make it
>> platform-independent. (Stream_Element should be replaced by octets.)
> 
> How would that particular change help platform independence?

Because then you would control both the representation (T'Write) and the
medium (octet of bits, assuming it atomic as usual).

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