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Zachary Kline wrote:
> The problem comes with Data_errors: if I try to
> handle that case the same way, we get a seemingly infinite loop.


I'm an Ada newbie too, but the first thing I wonder is what Get does 
with the input characters if they don't match the expected type. I 
wonder whether it leaves them on the input stream -- in which case 
subsequent attempts to read the input will try to read the same 
characters each time. Until somebody who knows what they're talking 
about comes along (won't be long) I'd try doing a string Get after a 
failed numeric get, to see what's still in the input stream.