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, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b62b9163b26144cf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Exit Loop_Statement Date: 2000/05/09 Message-ID: <8f91ps$vb3$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 621088449 References: <8f7oep$khc$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> <3917C83E.D088C4DF@bton.ac.uk> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x34.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue May 09 12:54:28 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 2000-05-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3917C83E.D088C4DF@bton.ac.uk>, John English wrote: > That should be Clients(1..4), right? Well yes, of course, and of course we all saw that. But don't you think it is instructive for people to find a bug like that for themselves. I preferred the previous post which gave a useful pointed hint (think about whether this will ever be true), to this one that provides the correction directly. A hard part of computer programming is figuring out why what you have written does not work, and learning to be careful and avoid writing such things in the first place. Practice is really essential in this task. The purpose of assignments is to provide this practice, and you have to be careful that in an attempt to be helpful you do not bypass this very important function. > You should convert to e.g. lower case if you want case > insensitivity: > if Ada.Characters.Handling.To_Lower(Clients(1..4)) = "stop" > then ... Again, I would point to the reference for this routine, rather than give the exact code, which the student can then just cut and paste without any understanding. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.