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From: Brian Drummond <brian3@shapes.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Text_IO, was: Re: Something I don't understand
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On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 13:37:20 -0800, AdaMagica wrote:

>> the best laid plans,
>> of mouses and mans gang aft agley...
> 
> I don't know Scottish dialect, but I know Robert Burns's lines as
> 
> ... of mice and men ...
> 
> which is proper English. Is yours the original?

eh, no, the context (snipped) was discussing the generation of plural 
forms as part of text I/O, and so...

apologies for any confusion so caused.

- Brian