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From: Gene Ouye <geneo@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length
Date: 1997/02/14
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Robert Dewar wrote:

> By the way, I don't know if I mentioned this before, but version 3.10 of
> GNAT will include a complete implementation of SNOBOL-4 pattern matching,
> and other useful items from SPITBOL, including associative arrays.

Whoopee!!  Every time I worked on a project that had any need for string
handling,
it seemed that the first thing I did was come up with a library of
routines that 
simulated SNOBOL-4.  Once you've used SNOBOL, you can't help but miss
its string 
processing capabilities when you move to other languages!

I'll be excited to see these things included in GNAT!!!

(have I used enough exclamation points? can you tell I'm happy?  :-)