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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada standard and maximum line lengths
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:18:43 +0100
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On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:02:09 -0800 (PST), Lucretia wrote:

> I was reading the Ada 2012 standard and found this, I was just wondering
> why there is a maximum line length, it's not like we parse the language a
> line at a time.

It is. I always accumulate a whole line before parsing it.

> Why not just accept it as a stream of tokens and if there
> are line breaks, ignore?

For multiple reasons. Specifically regarding Ada, the language has syntax
elements bound by the line end, e.g. comments etc.

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