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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length
Date: 1997/03/03
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Fergus said

<<Certainly there is plenty of disagreement about whether or not GC
should be provided.  But it's not clear to me that you couldn't achieve
concensus about a minimal portable API for GC, for those
implementations that do provide it.  What makes you think this would be
so hard?>>

Because I tried to explore this possibility during the design, and there
was a clear consensus that this was a bad idea, and lots of disagreement
on how one might approach the problem, and lots of agreement that no one
knew enough to be sure that one particular approach was the best, or even
good enough to be standardized.