From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada has no continual line(s) ??
Date: 31 May 2002 07:50:24 -0700
Date: 2002-05-31T14:50:25+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0205310650.5d38b770@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ad6b5t$69t$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
"hongxun lee" <lee.1801@osu.edu> wrote in message news:<ad6b5t$69t$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>...
> this (is exactly my worry) works well..
>
> > x :string := "One ring to blahdy blah, "
> > & "One ring to blahdy blahdy blah, "
> > & "One ring to blahdy blah and bla ";
Actually this is a weakness in Ada. It is not always the
case that you can replace a long string literal with several string
literals concatenated together (it is
interesting to leave this up to the reader to figure
out when it fails :-)
There really should have been a lexical convention for
continuing long strings. An obvious one would simply be
to say that you can break a long literal into two, e.g. replace "long
string" by "long " whitespace "string".
In practice the exceptional cases are rare, but still
it is annoying to have nasty little exceptions like this.
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2002-05-30 16:20 Ada has no continual line(s) ?? hongxun lee
2002-05-30 16:26 ` John McCabe
2002-05-30 17:41 ` hongxun lee
2002-05-30 18:07 ` Pascal Obry
2002-05-31 7:53 ` Poul-Erik Andreasen
2002-05-31 8:25 ` John McCabe
2002-05-31 15:24 ` Darren New
2002-05-31 8:43 ` John McCabe
2002-05-31 16:51 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-30 18:15 ` Mark Biggar
2002-05-30 18:28 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-30 18:31 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-05-30 20:18 ` John R. Strohm
2002-05-30 19:13 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-30 20:17 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-30 21:25 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-30 23:14 ` Darren New
2002-05-31 8:27 ` John McCabe
2002-05-31 8:44 ` John McCabe
2002-05-31 19:51 ` Keith Thompson
2002-05-31 9:03 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-05-31 13:15 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-31 16:56 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-31 8:26 ` John McCabe
2002-05-30 21:48 ` chris.danx
2002-05-31 3:30 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-31 13:01 ` chris.danx
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2002-05-31 14:50 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2002-06-11 21:38 ` Keith Thompson
2002-06-12 23:32 ` David Brown
2002-06-13 2:03 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-13 15:56 ` Ted Dennison
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2002-06-13 13:17 Grein, Christoph
2002-06-13 14:02 ` Stephen Leake
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