Re: Binary value

["Marc A. Criley" <mcqada@earthlink.net>]

Robert A Duff wrote:
> 
> "Phaedrus" <phaedrusalt@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I've often thought that the "default base" in text_io should allow you to set
> > the default INPUT base, too, so that users of it could just specify that they
> > wanted the user to be able to plug in a number in a certain base without
> > using the base and pound signs.  Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.
> 
> You can read the thing as a string, and then say something like
> T'Image("2#" & The_Input_String & "#").

Yeah, I would either do this (except use 'Value instead of 'Image, like
David mentioned :-), or Get from a string.

I rarely do direct numeric input, especially if it's interactive.  I use
Get_Line, which gives me a chance to more simply handle things like C/Rs
or do some kind of input validation, and then extract the value from
that string.

Marc