Re: Ada BIND was: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics

From: Hyman Rosen (hyrosen_at_mail.com)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 02:09:36 GMT

Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> Check the length of the string to be read, then read either that
> number of characters or the maximum buffer size. Of course, this means
> in many cases you have to read the string twice while Ada allows you to
> read it once. (Ask for N characters and get a count of how many you get.)

Huh? fread, fgets, istream.getline, istream.read are all ways of
reading up to a pre-determined amount of data into a buffer in C
and C++. In no case does the string need to be read twice.
What a bizarre claim!

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