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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:22:02 +0100
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Robert A Duff a �crit :
> Indeed, that is a serious flaw in the design of Ada.
> 
> By the way, Ada 2005 has a function Get_Line that returns type String.

Which is a dubious feature if you asked me as you do not control the
amount of stack space used by the returned object. This can easily lead
to stack overflow, strange for Ada which aim to be on the safe side.

Pascal.

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