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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@best.com>
Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length
Date: 1997/02/15
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On 15 Feb 1997, Robert Dewar wrote:
> <... referring to the planned SNOBOL string library for GNAT v3.10  ...> 
>
> The GNAT capability is not just a simulation but an exact and complete
> copy, with even a reasonable approximation of the SNOBOL-4 syntax. The
> code for the pattern matching (about 6000 lines of code with comments)
> is a complete pattern matching implementation including recursive
> patterns, and dynamic pattern assignment. The code uses the same
> algorithm as the pattern matcher I wrote for Macro SPITBOL.

	Will this library be written in portable Ada-95, or will it be 
GNAT specific? The former would of course be preferable, and save many 
people from writing and using crude approximations.

-- Brian