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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada standard and maximum line lengths
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:37:43 +0200
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Date: 2013-01-29T14:37:43+02:00
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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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