From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5997b4b7b514f689 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length Date: 1997/03/03 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 222855076 Distribution: world References: <5ds40o$rpo@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <33032AE2.666F@mds.lmco.com> Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-03-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > Jon said > > < 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