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From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: Serious problem: Begin ignored! Please help!
Date: 1997/10/20
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Greg Kelley (gkelley@css.tayloru.edu) wrote:

: I have been trying for hours to get rid of the following error and keep
: hitting brick walls
: Someone please give me some assistance. I am programming on a DEC machine.

Your source code looks fine to me.  It may be that you have a syntax
error *after* the BEGIN, and the compiler is deciding that the best way
to correct for the error is to ignore the "BEGIN".

In any case, whenever you have a problem like this, it is important
to include the *entire* program, not just a "snippet", plus the
exact listing output produced by the compiler.
Otherwise, it may be difficult to reproduce the problem.

: The error is:

: BEGIN
: ^
: ada: Error: machine_problem_1.ada, line 39: Ignored reserved-word "begin"

: And my program (up to the error is:

..

: gkelley@css.tayloru.edu

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