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From: jeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Pascal IO
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Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 12:55:22 EST
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> 
> What's wrong is having to ask EOLN or EOF for permission to call READ or
> READLN. IO is like kissing a girl; you don't ask, you just do it. Then
> check the status to see if you got anything.
> 
> 	jim

Don't you think his metaphor breaks down somewhere along the way?
He might get a "return status" he doesn't expect.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak