From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,463c997594f91391 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: JS Subject: Get_Immediate warning, (was: How to get a character?) Date: 1999/04/13 Message-ID: <371304D4.81D40292@ddre.dk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 465814868 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <370EE07D.67C71458@dave-world.net> <87k8vkag6f.fsf@bglbv.my-dejanews.com> <923936702.835.91@news.remarQ.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@uni2.dk X-Trace: news.get2net.dk 923993695 130.228.34.2 (Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:54:55 MET DST) Organization: UNI2 Internet Kunde MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:54:55 MET DST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-04-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Fraser Wilson wrote: > > paene lacrimavi postquam Matthew Heaney scribavit: > > >In my mind, I was thinking "return", even though he did say any key. > > >Thanks for pointing this out to me. > > By the way, if I really want a return I usually use Skip_Line, so > that I don't have to worry about the input. For some reason I > have an irrational fear of Get_Immediate, but it's probably just me. Not Quite irrational. Since Get_Immediate is much less used, You can never be sure if it really works as it is supposed to until you have verified it yourself for the compiler at hand. One recent example is Object-Ada version 7.1.1 where it did not ! > > Fraser. > (change i's to y's for my real email address)