Re: Text_IO.Get_Line

[mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)]

In article <19970519224400.SAA06280@ladder02.news.aol.com>, rehixon@aol.com
(RE Hixon) wrote:

>Thanks for your reply concerning Get_Line.  In MASM 6.1, when I request a
>buffered string input, the system will only allow the user to enter the
>maximum number of characters that I have allowed to be stored in memory. 
>If the user trys to enter more than what I have declared, the system will
>beep and not allow any more input.  I would like to duplicate this using
>Ada 95.

But the point is that that doesn't necessarily need to be a restriction. 
It's a restriction because you have made the choice that it be a
restriction.

As shown in the previous post, using a loop to read all the line, and
appending each segment to an unbounded_string, means the restriction need
not be there.  Of course, you may have other reasons for the restriction,
but "size of the internal buffer" doesn't need to be one.

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