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Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

> Your "certainly" is misplaced since you do not restrict your claim to
> a particular environment or program.

I don't know all of them :) And since the goal is to develop programs that
are *safe* (whatever it means for you) I think that such Get_Line
implementation should be avoided. Moreover returning unconstraint objects on
the stack uses lot of stack space (ok, this depends on the
implementation). Now you are free to choose the implementation you like :) I
will never accept such Get_Line implementation, that's all!

Pascal.

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