Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> The real killer for such a system is the number of people who *do* assume
>> 8-bit bytes. What happens when you have 10-bit characters and you call
>>    write(14, "Zoop", 4)
>> and handle 14 is a TCP socket?
> 
> Hell breaks loose?

I don't know. But that's the problem Ada solves by separating out "bytes of 
memory" from "bytes of I/O".  Of course, as Warp points out, for 99% of the 
population not writing code for embedded processors in weapons systems, 
those two types are always the same and it's annoying as hell to write any 
I/O stuff in Ada. :-)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.

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