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From: Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net>
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On Nov 3, 2:27=A0am, AdaMagica <christ-usch.gr...@t-online.de> wrote:
> A.10.10(8) ...reads an identifier according to the syntax of this
> lexical element...
>
> This means that reading stops as soon as a character is met that does
> not belong to the syntax of enumerations. This means that reading must
> use a look ahead. Otherwise it could not successfully read an input
> string like
> =A0 =A0Monday,
> Here, reading stops after the character y, leaving the comma in the
> input stream. Thus in your loop, after having read and output Monday,
> reading begins with the comma and immediately stops again, raising the
> exception, ad infinitum...

Actually, the input
  Monday,
is read correctly and the program terminates normally, apparently
because it found a correct element before having to deal with the
comma.

Jerry