From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.13.203.68 with SMTP id n65mr10848873ywd.26.1471732917027; Sat, 20 Aug 2016 15:41:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.38.178 with SMTP id l47mr953892otb.13.1471732916953; Sat, 20 Aug 2016 15:41:56 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!j37no9659425qta.0!news-out.google.com!d68ni33849ith.0!nntp.google.com!f6no11586909ith.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 15:41:56 -0700 (PDT) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=64.134.241.213; posting-account=AvekzAoAAABj-TclKcOWQmXwA49MFPGX NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.134.241.213 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <07632b3f-f419-4865-a8f8-01b568a6883e@googlegroups.com> Subject: Why does this input get "skipped"? From: John Smith Injection-Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 22:41:56 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Received-Bytes: 1394 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2330918096 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:31471 Date: 2016-08-20T15:41:56-07:00 List-Id: This is the snippet in question: Ada.Text_IO.Put("Delete a value - > "); String_Input := Ada.Text_IO.Unbounded_IO.Get_Line; Ada.Text_IO.New_Line; The purpose is to have the user enter some string and then keep going. When I ran the above code, I found that I saw "Delete a value - > " being printed, but the program didn't even give me a chance to enter some form of text... Why did my code keep running?