Serious problem: Begin ignored! Please help!

Serious problem: Begin ignored! Please help!

[Greg Kelley]

I have been trying for hours to get rid of the following error and keep
hitting brick walls
Someone please give me some assistance. I am programming on a DEC machine.

The error is:

BEGIN
^
ada: Error: machine_problem_1.ada, line 39: Ignored reserved-word "begin"

And my program (up to the error is:

WITH Fractions, G_Stack, Text_IO, Integer_Text_IO;
USE  Fractions, Text_IO, Integer_Text_IO;

PROCEDURE Machine_Problem_1 IS

Expression : String(1..80);
Expression_Length : integer;
temp :  String(1..20);
temp_frac :  fraction_type;
temp_frac1 :  fraction_type;
Start :  integer;
Times : boolean;
Total : fraction_type;


  PROCEDURE Convert(frac_string   : IN string;
                    string_length : IN integer;
                    frac          : OUT fraction_type) IS

    I : integer;

  BEGIN
    I := 1;
    LOOP
    EXIT WHEN Line(I) = '/';             -- Find location of '/'
      IF I = Length
        THEN I := 0;
             EXIT;
      END IF;
      I := I + 1;
    END LOOP;
    IF I = 0                            -- Create new fraction
      THEN Frac := (Fraction (Integer'Value(Line(1..Length))));
      ELSE Frac := (Integer'Value (Line(1..(I-1)))) /
                             (Integer'Value(Line((I+1)..Length)));
    END IF;
  END Convert;

BEGIN       --error line! 

I know it's probably something not to difficult and I'm just over looking
the problem.

I greatly appreciate your time and if you could answer via e-mail I would
greatly appreciate it.

gkelley@css.tayloru.edu

Re: Serious problem: Begin ignored! Please help!

[William & Melissa Thornton]

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You have begin listed twice.  You can't begin more than once. :)

Greg Kelley wrote:
>
> I have been trying for hours to get rid of the following error and keep
> hitting brick walls
> Someone please give me some assistance. I am programming on a DEC machine.
>
> The error is:
>
> BEGIN
> ^
> ada: Error: machine_problem_1.ada, line 39: Ignored reserved-word "begin"
>
> And my program (up to the error is:
>
> WITH Fractions, G_Stack, Text_IO, Integer_Text_IO;
> USE  Fractions, Text_IO, Integer_Text_IO;
>
> PROCEDURE Machine_Problem_1 IS
>
> Expression : String(1..80);
> Expression_Length : integer;
> temp :  String(1..20);
> temp_frac :  fraction_type;
> temp_frac1 :  fraction_type;
> Start :  integer;
> Times : boolean;
> Total : fraction_type;
>
>   PROCEDURE Convert(frac_string   : IN string;
>                     string_length : IN integer;
>                     frac          : OUT fraction_type) IS
>
>     I : integer;
>
>   BEGIN
>     I := 1;
>     LOOP
>     EXIT WHEN Line(I) = '/';             -- Find location of '/'
>       IF I = Length
>         THEN I := 0;
>              EXIT;
>       END IF;
>       I := I + 1;
>     END LOOP;
>     IF I = 0                            -- Create new fraction
>       THEN Frac := (Fraction (Integer'Value(Line(1..Length))));
>       ELSE Frac := (Integer'Value (Line(1..(I-1)))) /
>                              (Integer'Value(Line((I+1)..Length)));
>     END IF;
>   END Convert;
>
> BEGIN       --error line!
>
> I know it's probably something not to difficult and I'm just over looking
> the problem.
>
> I greatly appreciate your time and if you could answer via e-mail I would
> greatly appreciate it.
>
> gkelley@css.tayloru.edu

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Re: Serious problem: Begin ignored! Please help!

[Robert S. White]

In article <344A1373.95FA957A@avicom.net>, thornton@AVICOM.NET says...
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>You have begin listed twice.  You can't begin more than once. :)

  His actual problem was that he did not have a BEGIN / END for his
outermost procedure.  I e-mailed a couple of days ago to him an 
edited version of his source that compiled OK under GNAT (except for 
the missing FRACTIONS.ADS spec).  Have not received any response.

  A fine line between helping students with their homework too much 
versus trying to keep them from getting discouraged.
_____________________________________________________________________
Robert S. White         -- An embedded systems software engineer
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Re: Serious problem: Begin ignored! Please help!

[Tucker Taft]

Greg Kelley (gkelley@css.tayloru.edu) wrote:

: I have been trying for hours to get rid of the following error and keep
: hitting brick walls
: Someone please give me some assistance. I am programming on a DEC machine.

Your source code looks fine to me.  It may be that you have a syntax
error *after* the BEGIN, and the compiler is deciding that the best way
to correct for the error is to ignore the "BEGIN".

In any case, whenever you have a problem like this, it is important
to include the *entire* program, not just a "snippet", plus the
exact listing output produced by the compiler.
Otherwise, it may be difficult to reproduce the problem.

: The error is:

: BEGIN
: ^
: ada: Error: machine_problem_1.ada, line 39: Ignored reserved-word "begin"

: And my program (up to the error is:

..

: gkelley@css.tayloru.edu

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