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From: reeder@reed.UUCP (Doug Reeder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Orca/Pascal Question
Message-ID: <13882@reed.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 90 02:54:58 GMT
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Reply-To: reeder@reed.UUCP (Doug Reeder)
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In article <421@unicorn.WWU.EDU- n8948315@unicorn.WWU.EDU (arthur morgan) writes:
-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. :-)

This is unfortunately true for many implementations of Pascal, however it is 
not a bug of the language itself. The simplest workaround in such a
brain-damaged evironment is to always use readln(), which often is not what
you want to use.

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