From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9c0b66bbaefa4f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-19 02:28:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!newsfeed1.uni2.dk!news.net.uni-c.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: best way to handle long strings!? Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:28:00 +0200 Organization: UNI-C Message-ID: <3D60BA20.7010007@nbi.dk> References: <3D5D0D64.9070601@nbi.dk> <1oF79.6034$hk3.1116470@news.xtra.co.nz> <5ee5b646.0208181653.5e16fc05@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kaoslx07.nbi.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.net.uni-c.dk 1029749283 28200 130.225.212.98 (19 Aug 2002 09:28:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.net.uni-c.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 09:28:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Any Browser, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 X-Accept-Language: Faeroese [fo],Danish [da],Norweg� Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28213 Date: 2002-08-19T11:28:00+02:00 List-Id: 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 -- "Hungh. You see! More bear. Yellow snow is always dead give-away."