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From: Mats Weber <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch>
Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length
Date: 1997/02/21
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> The question about storage usage was resolved by the fact that leaving the
> scope of the Ref_String type would free the storage used by the successive values
> of Buffer.all.

In Ada 83, this is not guaranteed to be portable (i.e. it may leak
memory on some implementations). I don't know if reclaiming that memory
is required in Ada 95.

> I can't fully test it, because my installation can't support input lines longer
> than 255 characters :-(

One level of recursion per character will not be very efficient.