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Reply To: | W. Wesley Groleau x4923 |
Date: | Tue, 17 Aug 1999 08:32:24 -0500 |
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> So the same exception is raised for "syntactic" as well as "semantic"
> invalidity. So the client program gets no info as to whether the
> token was consumed or not.
Unless "Exception_Message" or "Exception_Information" has been implemented
to give these details. But depending on this is not portable. So this is
indeed a flaw in Ada.
> For real "industrial strength" interactive input, AFAIK there is no
> general alternative to reading a line into a string (using Get_Line),
> then parsing the tokens yourself. ....
And this is an admission of a flaw. We're saying, in effect, "the
language-defined routine is inadequate; use this method instead."
> Even this doesn;t solve it entirely, because a string is, by
> definition, an array of _Character_, and if the *&^%$ thing in
> the input is not in Character, I think you're back to Rick's problem.
This may have been a *&^%$ in Ada-83, but in Ada-95, what possible value
can it have that is not in Character?
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