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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Switch the LINE_READER being used by DSN_LEXER as owned, and accessible 
via pointer.
This paves the way for other kinds of LINE_READERs, such as one which 
reads from a
multiline string which comes from the clipboard.

Will still need to:
1) add new additional DSN_LEXER constructor,
2) virtualize the LINE_READER's ReadLine() function
3) create derived class from LINE_READER.

Attractive, self documenting, and human readable text clipboard formats 
then become possible using the richio stack.

DSNLEXER assumes 8 bit character data, since the our DSN format is a mix 
ASCII and UTF8, but always 8 bits. keywords must be ASCII, symbols can 
be UTF8. (More folk lore here.)


So the upcoming mult-line string LINE_READER will have to return 8 bit 
characters. This does not tie down the clipboard format as needing to 
be 8 bit however. That is still a degree of freedom.