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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Subject: Re: Ada standard and maximum line lengths
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:37:43 +0200
Date: 2013-01-29T14:37:43+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ampu4nFs91hU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <amptotFs5ouU1@mid.individual.net>

On 13-01-29 14:31 , Niklas Holsti wrote:
> On 13-01-29 13:31 , Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>> On 29.01.13 11:25, Niklas Holsti wrote:
>>> 200 characters is ok as a max line
>>> length. 200 for an identifier is overkill, IMO.
>>
>> When the meaning of "meaning" is defined by a programming
>> environment, naming capabilities may need to tackle names that the
>> environment imposes on the source. The names may exist for, and be
>> shaped by, hysterical raisins. For example, the following is listed
>> as a symbol from the text section of a standard C++ library:
>>
>> __ZNSt3__112basic_stringIwNS_11char_traitsIwEENS_9allocatorIwEEE6insertIPKwEENS_9enable_ifIXsrNS_21__is_forward_iteratorIT_EE5valueENS_11__wrap_iterIPwEEE4typeENSD_IS8_EESB_SB_
> 
> As you well know, that is a compiler-generated mangled "symbol", not a
> user-written identifier.

One more point: even if you want to link Ada code to this C++ library,
that long symbol would be a string in a pragma, not an Ada identifier.

-- 
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-29 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-28  5:02 Ada standard and maximum line lengths Lucretia
2013-01-28  6:01 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-01-28  6:28 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-28  8:05   ` Niklas Holsti
2013-01-28 16:42     ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-28 20:22       ` Niklas Holsti
2013-01-28 20:46         ` J-P. Rosen
2013-01-28 21:29           ` Niklas Holsti
2013-01-29  1:42             ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-29  6:15             ` J-P. Rosen
2013-01-29 10:25               ` Niklas Holsti
2013-01-29 11:31                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-29 12:11                   ` Simon Wright
2013-01-29 12:31                   ` Niklas Holsti
2013-01-29 12:37                     ` Niklas Holsti [this message]
2013-01-29 15:29                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-29 16:58                       ` Niklas Holsti
2013-01-29 17:51                         ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-29 18:18                           ` Shark8
2013-01-29 19:54                           ` Niklas Holsti
2013-01-29 23:12                             ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-30  9:18                               ` Niklas Holsti
2013-01-30  9:51                                 ` Simon Wright
2013-01-30 15:28                                 ` Robert A Duff
2013-01-30 23:24                                   ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-31  2:16                                     ` Robert A Duff
2013-01-31  9:10                                       ` Stefan.Lucks
2013-01-31  9:30                                         ` Niklas Holsti
2013-01-31  9:51                                           ` Simon Wright
2013-01-31 10:56                                           ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-31 18:02                                         ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-31 23:54                                       ` Randy Brukardt
2013-02-01  9:15                                         ` Niklas Holsti
2013-02-01 23:13                                           ` Randy Brukardt
2013-02-02  1:24                                             ` Lucretia
2013-02-02 14:12                                               ` Robert A Duff
2013-02-05  2:09                                               ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-31  9:03                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-01-30  9:37                               ` Simon Wright
2013-01-30 12:02                                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-29 23:47                             ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-30  7:24                               ` Niklas Holsti
2013-01-30 10:09                                 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-01-29 20:36                 ` Niklas Holsti
2013-01-29 21:01                   ` Robert A Duff
2013-01-29 21:14                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-01-28  8:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-01-28 10:02   ` Maciej Sobczak
2013-01-28 11:57     ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-28 13:28       ` Niklas Holsti
2013-01-28 15:14       ` J-P. Rosen
2013-01-28 16:13       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-01-28 15:13     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-01-28 13:49 ` Robert A Duff
2013-01-29  2:09   ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-29 18:46 ` Lucretia
2013-01-29 20:53   ` Robert A Duff
2013-01-29 21:22   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-01-30  3:22     ` Lucretia
2013-01-30  9:49       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-01-30 23:28         ` Randy Brukardt
2013-02-01  1:48       ` Shark8
2013-01-29 21:29   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-01-29 21:53   ` Adam Beneschan
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