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From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length
Date: 1997/02/25
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In article <dewar.856737108@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> Oh no! That misunderstands the purposes of the annexes which is to codify 
> a small subset of standard functionality that everyone could agree on as
> essential. Simulating SNOBOL4 pattern matching is *way* outside that mandate!

I suppose so.  But the annexes could be so much more useful.  They
could even act as a kind of inter standard place for certain things
like this string stuff (assuming some sort of "formalization"
process) or more interesting GC stuff.

/Jon

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