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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [ot... well kindof] SDI
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 19:17:26 -0400
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Try,

Robust_Input :
 loop
     begin
        some_statement (some_parameters);
        exit Robust_Input;
     exception
        when Some_Exception => Put_Line ("bad input");
     end;
 end loop Robust_Input;

> What about flabby coding?  Can I ask how to tidy that up here?  I have
> one snippets of Ada code, which is flabby and need to tidy it up, but am
> not sure exactly why it is flabby (actually I now think I know why it is
> flabby, just not how to make it tighter).

If tidy code is code done the Ada way, I imagine you can have it critiqued
here.

You're welcome,
-CRM