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On 12/13/2016 03:50 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> Huh? This function has been in Ada.Text_IO since 2005. Why would anyone
> other than a compiler writer implement it?

Yes. Before that it was part of the PragmAda Reusable Components. See

Carter, J., "Variable-Length String Input in Ada", /Ada Letters/, 1989 May/Jun

available via

http://pragmada.x10hosting.com/papers.html

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine,
public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system,
and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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