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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: get_immediate echoe character--compiled error?
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"Jeffrey R.Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org.not> writes:

> On 2023-10-04 10:22, Simon Wright wrote:
>> Or, alternatively, don't turn echoing off at all - what's the use
>> case
>> for turning it off? After all, the ARM says nothing about it.
>
> The use case is inputting passwords and the like. See Password_Line
> (https://github.com/jrcarter/Encryption-utilities/blob/master/password_line.ads)
> for an example. Note that this has identical behavior with GNAT/Linux
> and ObjectAda/Windows.

Obviously you need to turn echoing off for password input. But neither
the ARM nor the GNAT RM says anything about Get_Immediate's echoing
behaviour, so it's hard to explain why OA does the same thing. Does its
manual specify this behaviour?