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From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Java vs Ada 95 (Was Re: Once again,
 Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation)
Date: 1996/10/29
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In article <554c5d$4ag@nntpa.cb.lucent.com> ka@socrates.hr.att.com (Kenneth Almquist) writes:

Neat example of Unbounded_String and Icon strings in comparison.
Example pretty much speaks for itself.  My my my - what do the
nay-sayers think about this?  :-)

> I suspect that automatic garbage collection is required to implement
> unbounded strings efficiently.  In Icon, the assignment "b := a" can
> be performed by simply copying a pointer.

Yup, I don't see how you can compete with this using good ol' _new_
(malloc, whatever) and free...

/Jon
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