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From: "Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com>
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Subject: Re: Newbie question on Ada TExt_IO
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:55:08 -0400
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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+news@pvv.org> wrote in message
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> No I would have used exceptions here. I find it difficult to see how you
> can avoid it.

The issue is that if there's an error, the bad input doesn't get consumed.
You have to remember to call Skip_Line, so you might as well call Get_Line
instead.

The other benefit is that you can interpret the input as meta-symbols.  For
example, I often interrogate the input as a string first:

"quit"
"q"
"exit"
"x"
"first"
"last"

and if none of these test true, then I go ahead an interpret it as an
integer input.