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Subject: Ada standard and maximum line lengths
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Hi,

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

Luke.