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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Form feed comment for pragma Page
Date: 1996/06/04
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Date: 1996-06-04T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.833858501@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>Second, form feed *is* in the allowed set of characters for Ada
>source code, but it is a logical end of line separator, so you
>cannot put it in the middle of a comment (since it ends the logical line).
>Again, no change from 83 to 95 here.

Quite true, but implementers can play games, since the RM does not
define the source representation.  Just because your editor and
operating system think it's a form-feed, doesn't mean your compiler
does, and vice-versa.

- Bob