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From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: Computer Language Shootout
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:

> "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:
> 
> > This one reads a line with no length limit:
> > 
> > function Get_Line return String is
  [...]
>
> Too bad this was not included in Text_IO itself.  It would save
> beginners a lot of trouble.  Sigh.

But this approach can use a lot of stack space and become very slow.
Returning an unconstraint object on the stack has a cost.

Pascal.

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