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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length
Date: 1997/03/03
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In article <5fdu5d$hn5@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, fjh@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) writes:

> Certainly there is plenty of disagreement about whether or not GC
> should be provided.  But it's not clear to me that you couldn't achieve
> concensus about a minimal portable API for GC, for those
> implementations that do provide it.  What makes you think this would be
> so hard?

I thought the Ada design allowed Garbage Collection to "just work"
without any changes to the source code. Why would one need an API ?

Larry Kilgallen