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From: doucet@ripolin.laas.fr (Jean-Etienne Doucet)
Subject: Re: Help!
Date: 1996/10/02
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Date: 1996-10-02T00:00:00+00:00
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In article foi@newsbf02.news.aol.com, johnherro@aol.com (John Herro) writes:

[[ snipped: good advices about the use clause and put_line not working
   with floating-point types...]]

|      That should fix everything.  When you run the program and type the
| number of dependents, don't forget that you're inputting a float.  E.g.,
| type "3.0", not "3".  I hope this helps.
| - John Herro
| Software Innovations Technology
| http://members.aol.com/AdaTutor
| ftp://members.aol.com/AdaTutor


About this last point, it depends on which compiler you're using: the remark is
true for Ada 83 compilers, but Ada 95 (and thus Gnat) allows to enter an
"integer" value when a floating-point is expected: see ARM (v6.0), annex A.10.9.
In this case, typing "3" is OK...


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