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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Reading the while standard input into a String
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 22:00:22 -0500
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"Shark8" <onewingedshark@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> Of course it is possible for Ada, of which syntax requires neither look
>> ahead or roll-back.
>
> How are Strings handled? In particular, embedding the double-quote.
> How does one parse "Bill said, ""I don't care.""" w/o a look-ahead (or
> roll back)?
> (Especially if, as seems to be the case here, he wants to do such via
> streams-of-some-sort.)

Ada source text requires one CHARACTER of lookahead (assuming a bit of 
context is saved). That doesn't not require a lot of buffering. ;-) 
(Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line requires more lookahead than Ada syntax does. Go 
figure.)

                    Randy.