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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Introductory Presentations, especially aimed at C++ programmers!
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message 
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> On 12/12/2016 05:53 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>>
>> A Get_Line like the above
>> generally requires some sort of incremental allocation (a buffer is
>> allocated, if its not big enough a bigger one is allocated, the first one 
>> is
>> copied into it, and then we repeat until a <LF> appears),
>
> As the person who created the Get_Line function, I can assure that's not 
> how most versions are implemented.

Huh? This function has been in Ada.Text_IO since 2005. Why would anyone 
other than a compiler writer implement it?

                               Randy.