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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: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:14:06 +0100
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Date: 2013-01-29T22:14:06+01:00
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:36:54 +0200, Niklas Holsti wrote:

> While 200 characters is IMO overkill for an
> identifier, which is a lexical element, it is not overkill for a string
> literal, which is also a lexical element.

Surely you would write large constant strings rather using concatenation or
else array aggregates, for which no limit apply.

E.g. I am using array aggregates for embedded Gtk images. They could be of
many kilobytes size.

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