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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:30:03 +0100
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On 26 Feb 2007 09:11:53 -0800, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> On Feb 26, 3:44 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
> wrote:
>> Further, why do you presume that heap is larger than stack?
>> AFAIK, nothing in RM requires or implies that.
> 
> Past experience. If that's not the case for some implementation then
> fine, but I suspect it's more often the case then not. I'm pretty sure
> we've seen newbie examples on the newsgroup where they create
> unconstrained objects (is that the right term?) on the stack and then
> wonder why their program doesn't work.

But this is an compiler implementation artefact which cannot serve as a
guideline for the standard library design.

P.S. Surely there should be a Get_Line for all string types, but not
because GNAT has heap larger than stack. The reason is language regularity.

P.P.S. For Unbounded_String Append_Line could be a useful complement to
Get_Line.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de