From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Niklas Holsti Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why am I getting "missing operand" from get_line()? Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 08:51:24 +0300 Organization: Tidorum Ltd Message-ID: References: <98217530-0216-4bc1-9d3c-167c5cb38b7f@googlegroups.com> <11915095-2343-4fb0-90d8-75377cbedcd0@googlegroups.com> <753206cf-25cb-40f3-bf08-ddae2c705642@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net O33oDebKRWYxmGytwrutkwnQSH9YCqb8qPmTMotscHutDk2omm Cancel-Lock: sha1:rDKWSlkGUNshFwIZ5B7swbCC5+Y= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:30523 Date: 2016-05-31T08:51:24+03:00 List-Id: On 16-05-31 08:40 , Egil H H wrote: > On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 1:09:17 AM UTC+2, John Smith wrote: >> On page 459 of the 2012 reference manual, on the last line, I can >> clearly see that Get_Line() does not take any inputs and returns an >> unbounded string. > > No, you can clearly see that Get_Line does not take any inputs and > returns an unbounded string. Like I said, it does not take > parenthesis Just to make it very clear: a parameterless call in Ada consists of just the subprogram name, without any (). Do not write: First_Name := Ada.Text_IO.Unbounded_IO.Get_Line(); Do write: First_Name := Ada.Text_IO.Unbounded_IO.Get_Line; HTH, -- Niklas Holsti Tidorum Ltd niklas holsti tidorum fi . @ .