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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com> writes:

> Stephen Leake wrote:
>
>> It's not a question of "familiarity". I'm totally familiar with the
>> code I wrote today, but next year I won't be.
>
> It's not a question of what you're familiar with; it's a question of
> what you can reasonably expect all readers (including yourself in a
> year) to be familiar with.

Which is exactly nothing; that's my point. 

Not even Ada.Text_IO. I don't use that much any more; there are other
packages I use far more often. I know "Put" and "Get"; anything else I
usually have to look up.

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-- Stephe