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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length
Date: 1997/02/26
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Jon said

<<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.>>

One person's "so much more useful" stuff is another person's
gratuitious rubbish. The point was to go as far as there was consensus
support, and not further. I would certainly have been very opposed
to even considering elaborate pattern matching stuff, there are too
many ways to approach this problem to decree one as standard. Similarly
for GC, it is clear that there would be no consensus on this addition.

Sure Jon, you have a pet list of stuff you would like to have avalailable,
but the annexes are not about pet stuff!