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From: sdl@rayssd.UUCP (Litvintchouk)
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Subject: Re: IO in generic packages
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Date: Sun, 28-Aug-83 15:01:15 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 28 15:01:15 1983
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In ANSI '83 Ada, you can do input/output with
generic package SEQUENTIAL_IO.  It takes ELEMENT_TYPE,
the type to be input/output, as a generic formal parameter.
Just instantiate the package.

I hope your Ada implementation of SEQUENTIAL_IO has
FORM parameters which permit the i/o in human readable (ASCII)
form (this is implementation dependent).

You clearly can't use TEXT_IO because  since the type is
generic formal private the generic has no way of knowing whether
it's text.

Another possibility is to import the required input/output functions
into the package as generic formal subprograms.