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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
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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?

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