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From: n8948315@unicorn.WWU.EDU (arthur morgan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Orca/Pascal Question
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Date: 13 Jan 90 19:01:53 GMT
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Reply-To: n8948315@unicorn.WWU.EDU (arthur morgan)
Organization: Western Washington Univ, Bellingham, WA
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In my experience with Pascal and Modula-2 (the son of pascal), I have found
the following to be true. Whenever you do a read operation, whether it be a
Read, ReadString, ReadInt, ReadReal, or whatever; the input all goes into an
input buffer, and a return charaacter is required in order to tell the com-
puter that the input operation is finished, and you are ready to have the
computer do whatever it is supposed to do with the data. For this reason,
when you do that 'Read(c);' with c being a variable of type CHAR, you MUST
enter a return character in order to terminate the input operation and send
the computer on to execute its next instruction. I hope this makes sense. :-)