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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length
Date: 1997/02/23
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Jon Anthony said

(of the SPITBOL pattern matching package)

<<Oh, I realize and readily accept that position.  It may have been cool
to have defined some version of this as an Annex or part of some
appropriate Annex, but...>>


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!