Re: functions, packages & characters

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
> you can't use Get_Line because you can't tell between the case of
> a line which exactly fills the buffer and a line which is too long and
> does not -- but in the former case, the line terminator is skipped).

This is a curious statement to be coming from the Keeper of Ada-Auth and
developer of Janus Ada. Get_Line does not skit the line terminator if
the string is completely filled. A.10.7 says Get_Line

Reads successive characters from the specified input file and assigns
them to successive characters of the specified string. Reading stops if
the end of the string is met. Reading also stops if the end of the line
is met before meeting the end of the string; in this case Skip_Line is
(in effect) called with a spacing of 1. The values of characters not
assigned are not specified.

Any implementation that skips the line terminator when the string is
completely filled is clearly incorrect. WWJD? (What Would Janus Do?)

-- 
Jeff Carter
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