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Subject: Re: get_immediate echoe character--compiled error?
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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.

-- 
Jeff Carter
“[A]bout half the patterns in the 'Gang of Four'
book only exist because of defects in C++ ...”
Brian Drummond
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