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From: fjh@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length
Date: 1997/03/03
Date: 1997-03-03T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5fdu5d$hn5@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.857350120@merv


dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> ... to even considering elaborate pattern matching stuff, there are too
> many ways to approach this problem to decree one as standard. Similarly
> for GC, it is clear that there would be no consensus on this addition.

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?

--
Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au>   |  "I have always known that the pursuit
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  reply	other threads:[~1997-03-03  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-02-12  0:00 Reading a line of arbitrary length Thomas Koenig
1997-02-12  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-12  0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1997-02-13  0:00   ` Jeff Carter
1997-02-13  0:00     ` Ted Dennison
1997-02-13  0:00       ` Geert Bosch
1997-02-13  0:00       ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-02-13  0:00       ` Rex Reges
1997-02-15  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1997-02-19  0:00     ` Jean-Etienne Doucet
1997-02-21  0:00       ` Mats Weber
1997-02-22  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-24  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-13  0:00 ` Rex Reges
     [not found]   ` <dewar.855848896@merv>
     [not found]     ` <dsmith-1302971702290001@dsmith.clark.net>
     [not found]       ` <33047186.463F@mds.lmco.com>
1997-02-14  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-14  0:00       ` Mats Weber
     [not found]     ` <33037A74.44AF@mds.lmco.com>
     [not found]       ` <dewar.855929857@merv>
1997-02-14  0:00         ` Rex Reges
1997-02-14  0:00         ` Gene Ouye
1997-02-15  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-15  0:00             ` Brian Rogoff
1997-02-15  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-16  0:00                 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-02-17  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-14  0:00       ` Mats Weber
1997-02-15  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-17  0:00           ` Mats Weber
1997-02-17  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-16  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-18  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-22  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-21  0:00     ` Brian Rogoff
1997-02-22  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-22  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
1997-02-23  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-25  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-26  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-27  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-02  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-02  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-03  0:00       ` Fergus Henderson [this message]
1997-03-03  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-03  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-04  0:00           ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-05  0:00           ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-03  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-03  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-03  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-03  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-04  0:00       ` Thomas Koenig
1997-03-05  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-06  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-06  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
     [not found]     ` <dewar.857447653@m <JSA.97Mar4154951@alexandria>
1997-03-05  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-05  0:00     ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-06  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-06  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-03  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-03  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-04  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-05  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-06  0:00       ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-06  0:00         ` Really more GC talk (was: Reading a line of arbitrary length) Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-11  0:00           ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-11  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-12  0:00               ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-04  0:00   ` Reading a line of arbitrary length Jon S Anthony
1997-03-05  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-16  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-02-16  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-16  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1997-02-17  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-25  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-04  0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-05  0:00   ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-03-06  0:00     ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-06  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-11  0:00         ` Fergus Henderson
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