[Oberon] Question about Oakwood guidelines and design choices

[August Karlstrom]

On 2021-06-06 20:40, Robert Doiel wrote:
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> But Files WriteReal() in Oakwood on;y has one 
> parameter.  Does anyone know the history behind why Oakwood as to why 
> Out.Real() and Files.WriteReal() would be different?

As far as I understand the Files module writes binary data, i.e. data 
which is supposed to be read by a program, whereas the Out module writes 
formatted data read by a human being. When a number is written in binary 
format it makes no sense to have it right aligned.


-- August