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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Get_Immediate warning, (was: How to get a character?)
Date: 1999/04/16
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Date: 1999-04-16T00:00:00+00:00
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> writes:

> THe problem of Text_IO in interactive environments is
> well understood, and it was a quite deliberate decision
> NOT to try to address it in the Ada 95 design. The general
> feeling was that it was too broken to get exactly right,
> and not broken enough to be worth a major kludging up.
> At the last minute the Get_Immediate and Flush bandaids
> were applied to stop the patient from bleeding to death :-)
> But plastic surgery was beyond the budget!

Can you elaborate on the "well understood problems" with interactive
Text_IO?