Re: Get_Immediate warning, (was: How to get a character?)

[kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <87hfqkgnrm.fsf@bglbv.my-dejanews.com>, bglbv@my-dejanews.com writes:

> to Get_Line. The standard is clearly written under the assumption that
> interactive input isn't normally buffered more than one line at a
> time, but this doesn't seem to be even an Implementation Advice,
> much less a requirement.

If that assumption were made, it would certainly indicate those
making the assumption lacked some degree of experience with real
operating systems.

> and keyboard input shouldn't be buffered in multi-line units without
> good reason either (but this doesn't need to be documented in Annex M
> as far as I can tell).

So what was the approach taken by the GNAT developers when
they encountered the VMS implementation of typeahead buffers?

Larry Kilgallen