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Subject: Re: Help parsing the language manual on Get'ing integers from Strings
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On 2020-12-21 9:57, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2020-12-21 01:11, John Perry wrote:
> 
>> Sorry if the subject is unclear. I recently tried to use
>>
>>     Get(S, Value, Last);
>>
>> ...in a program where Value was a Natural and S has the value "29: 116 
>> 82 | 119 24". GNAT gave me a Data_Error.
>>
...
> I think the problem is that the implementation tries to interpret
> 
>    29: 116 ...
> 
> as a based number. Colon : is a replacement character for # (see 
> allowable replacements of characters).


I see, an "obsolescent feature" in RM J.2. I learn something new every 
day (I hope).

Ok, so no bug.