Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtech.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!rtech!jeff From: jeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Pascal IO Message-ID: <199@rtech.ARPA> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 12:55:22 EST Article-I.D.: rtech.199 Posted: Fri Mar 1 12:55:22 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 03:08:34 EST References: <8630@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Relational Technology, Berkeley CA Lines: 12 > > What's wrong is having to ask EOLN or EOF for permission to call READ or > READLN. IO is like kissing a girl; you don't ask, you just do it. Then > check the status to see if you got anything. > > jim Don't you think his metaphor breaks down somewhere along the way? He might get a "return status" he doesn't expect. -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) aka Swazoo Koolak