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From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length
Date: 1997/03/03
Date: 1997-03-03T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97Mar3134445@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 33032AE2.666F@mds.lmco.com


In article <dewar.857349976@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> Jon said
> 
> <<As for the GC example, you yourself suggested this as a possibility.
> I believe I still have the post saved where you stated so.>>
> 
> Indeed, but read more carefully what I said, I said "the more interesting
> GC stuff", and that is what I meant!

Shrug.


> When it comes to the pattern matching stuff I certainly disagree, but
> then I don't know if Jon really knows SNOBOL4, and realizes the kind of
> level of capability that I am talking about (remember that Jon is guessing
> that the implementation of GNAT.Spitbol.Patterns, sight unseen, might be
> suitable for an annex. For all kinds of reasons it is not!

First, I kinda sorta know SNOBOL4, i.e, I've looked over various
descriptions of it.  I even modeled my own set of generic pattern
matching packages after some of the stuff available there and have
used them for some years.  They are extremely handy in many diverse
settings.

Second, I never said, and you incorrectly presume, that I think the
GNAT stuff here should be in annex.  I have no idea.  For all I know
it may indeed be "gratuitous rubbish".  I merely said that some
_definition_ or _specification_ of a pattern matching capability
_might_ be a nice thing to have in an annex.  It may well be that this
would not be agreed to by reason that it was somehow too specific or
something.

/Jon
-- 
Jon Anthony
Organon Motives, Inc.
Belmont, MA 02178
617.484.3383
jsa@organon.com





  parent 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]     ` <33037A74.44AF@mds.lmco.com>
     [not found]       ` <dewar.855929857@merv>
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         ` Rex Reges
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
     [not found]     ` <dsmith-1302971702290001@dsmith.clark.net>
1997-02-14  0:00       ` Mats Weber
     [not found]       ` <33047186.463F@mds.lmco.com>
1997-02-14  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
1997-03-03  0:00       ` Fergus Henderson
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
1997-03-02  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
1997-03-05  0:00     ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-06  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-06  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
     [not found]     ` <dewar.857447653@m <JSA.97Mar4154951@alexandria>
1997-03-05  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-03  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   ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
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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