Re: best way to handle long strings!?

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

AG wrote:

> Currently, yes. But if someone was to write
> an Ada compiler for a paper-tape based machine
> with no concept of a line break even? Would that
> compiler stop being Ada?

Yes, since comments are defined to be terminated by line breaks.

> Also, the 2.2(2) goes on to add (after your quote) that
> "representation for an end of line is implementation
> defined". I'm not too sure about that one, but does it mean
> that an implementation is allowed to *not* represent
> the EOL at all, provided it has no problem compiling
> the result?

It is free to choose the _representation_ of the source 
code, but it has to support all the characters in ISO 8859-1.

Jacob
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