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Subject: Re: "Subtract C, add Ada"
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From: hathawa2@marshall.edu (Mark S. Hathaway)
Date: 29 Jan 95 20:24:18 EDT
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Date: 1995-01-29T20:24:18-04:00
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> In article <3g4p94$g07@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu>,
> dobrien@seas.gwu.edu (David O'Brien) writes:

> : Robert Firth (firth@sei.cmu.edu) wrote:

> : 	LOOP
> : 	   get(c);
> : 	   EXIT WHEN c /= ASCII.SP;
> : 	END LOOP;
> :
> : Note also that if there are *no more* non space characters, the C code
> : dies in an infinite loop, while the Ada code automatically does the
> : right thing, namely raises the END_ERROR exception.

> Woa!  Just how is it going to be determined that "enough" spaces have
> been processed before it is decided that we have an infinate loop?
> I'm not too sure I want some compiler/run-time to decide it has had
> enough and kill my program...
> 
> -- David O'Brien	(dobrien@seas.gwu.edu)


Why should C code die in an infinite loop?  Wouldn't that eventually be
an end-of-file character, if not some other non-space character(s)?


Mark S. Hathaway       <hathawa2@marshall.edu>