Re: Get_Line problem (GNAT bug?)

Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
The rules of thumb I suppose I and many other Ada programmers are using:

1. Never ever use End_Of_File with text files;
2. If you yet use End_Of_File then do it for *each* character of the file;
3. As Adam has suggested, End_Error exception is the right design;
4. End_Error is not only cleaner and correct, but also more efficient.

And I'll add another one:
5. End_Error works correctly with badly formed files, i.e. files whose
last line does not end with and end-of-line mark. You can get strange behaviour in that case with any other solution.

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