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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Getting valid Integer values !!
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"CheGueVerra" <chegueverra@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> >You should declare a 'subtype' for this range.
>
> In my homework I do declare a  subtype for it, I just didn't for the
test...

Good

Also, for literals you should use '_' for such large numbers, e.g.
1_000_000 not 1000000

> Cannot exit a loop while and for with an exit
> Cannot use goto
> Cannot have global variables

And so another 'programmer invented flag' hits the coding sheets...
...my old JSP teacher would be spinning!

If you are also write a criteque of this, you can tell your prof, that
'exit' is the mechanism of choice in such circumstances for Ada
users (and always has been).

>
> That's why I'm not taking a chance and using the exit in the loop, the
> teacher might just see the exit and I'll loose points, and the homework is
> already late ;), but almost finished, I'm testing and installing data
> cheking

Fair enough