Re: ADA error message ...

["Bennett, Chip (KTR) ~U" <BennettC@J64.STRATCOM.AF.MIL>]

908mangla@WMICH.EDU (Usman) writes:

> The following is a .LIS file from an ADA compilation. Can someone explain
the
> error occuring at line 42.
>
> ... (source deleted)
>

You use of Text_IO.Get with a floating point type requires the instantiation
of a generic:

     package My_Float_IO is new Text_IO.Float_IO (Float);
     use My_Float_IO;

Numeric types can be anything (temperature, class_avg, etc).  Float is just
the one provided.  In other words, if you had declared a floating type like
the following:

     type Temperature is digits 6;
     ...
     package Temp_IO is new Text_IO.Float_IO (Temperature);
     use Temp_IO;

You could then use "Get" with type "Temperature".

(Be sure and give me credit on your homework assignment :-) )

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Thanks, Usman
Date:    Sun, 20 Nov 1994 15:20:16 EDT
From:    908mangla@WMICH.EDU
Subject: ADA error message ...

The following is a .LIS file from an ADA compilation. Can someone explain
the
error occuring at line 42.

Thanks, Usman