From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,680defdd64d3300 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Help on Package_Name References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:17:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.8.243 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1101151064 63.184.8.243 (Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:17:44 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:17:44 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6336 Date: 2004-11-22T19:17:44+00:00 List-Id: munnoch wrote: > ada.text_io deals with character input - this includes strings which are > just arrays of characters > and .. well .. you guessed it .. ada.integer_text_io and ada.float_text_io > deals with integer and floating point number types respectively No, Ada.Integer_Text_IO deals with I/O for type Integer and Ada.Float_Text_IO for type Float. These are essentially instantiations of Ada.Text_IO.Integer_IO for type Integer and Ada.Text_IO.Float_IO for type Float. As a beginner, you may well just use Integer and Float in your early programs, but once you've learned the language and for anything that matters, you should be declaring your own numeric types. I know the terminology is a little confusing. Ada.Text_IO.Integer_IO provides text I/O for any [signed] integer type. Type Integer is one such type. Similarly, Ada.Text_IO.Float_IO provides text I/O for any floating-point type; type Float is one such type. -- Jeff Carter "People called Romanes, they go the house?" Monty Python's Life of Brian 79