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Hi.  I have a few books and have just started to learn about Ada.
I see that some books use a line like:

Ada.float_Text_IO.Get ( Item => P);

I was wondering about the "Item=>."
This is not (not yet anyway) explained and I was wondering if someone 
could tell me more about why/how to use it?
It seems to be optional and not required.

Thanks