Re: Need help for a Calculator program

[John English <je@brighton.ac.uk>]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
> Or you can require the user to enter a semicolon to terminate a
> statement, like Ada does. That makes things simpler for the
> programmer, which is ok while you are just learning.

Which is what the example in the book does, except it uses a full
stop rather than a semicolon. I avoided using Get_Line because
string variables and arrays hadn't been covered at that point
in the book, and End_Of_Line has too many gotchas.

However, what I hadn't realised is that while the Real English term
"full stop" is synonymous with the Real English term "period", the
same is not true in US English :-(

In retrospect, using "semicolon" would have been clearer, and I
now plan to fix the text to do this.

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