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From: ken@rochester.ARPA (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: TURBO Pascal READ
Message-ID: <27256@rochester.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 10:05:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 23 10:05:39 1987
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Reply-To: ken@rochester.UUCP (Ken Yap)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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Well, let me guess what is going on. When read sees 12.34E it thinks an
exponent is coming up. But the T invalidates that. It is possible to
design the input reader so that it pushes the E back onto the input
buffer when the T is seen. It's just that Turbo Pascal didn't implement
this. So, yes it's a bug.  Complain.

I just tested Berkeley pi and the program works correctly there.

	Ken