[mercury-users] waiting for an enter

[Fergus Henderson]

On 27-May-2003, Tom Wouters <tom.wouters1 at student.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
> i was trying to write an interactive application which requires the 
> mercury program to wait for an enter on stdin a few times.
> 
> i tried
> 
> io__read_line(_R1),
> ...
> io__read_line(_R2),
> ...

That should work fine.
It certainly works fine for me (I just tested it).
What OS are you using?

> but the program only seems to wait for the first read_line, and skips 
> the others.

Odd... you're not calling io__set_input_stream, are you?

If you can't figure out what is causing the problem, I suggest posting
a complete program that exhibits the problem to
mercury-bugs at cs.mu.oz.au, together with information about exactly
which versions of Mercury, gcc, and the OS you are using.

-- 
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