From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   Richard Heathfield  writes:   
   >This was a perennial comp.lang.c topic back in the day.   
      
     But what about writing a scanner in languages with automatic   
     memory management where reading a whole line is very simple   
     and assuming an input language that limits line length to   
     some reasonable value, say, 1,000,000 characters?   
      
     In such a language, would there still be reasons not to   
     read the whole line into memory, but to read it char-by-char   
     as traditional scanners do?   
      
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