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From: Eric Hughes <eric.eh9@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Strings.Bounded
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> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:35:36 -0700 (PDT), Eric Hughes wrote:
> > ARM 2.4.1 "Decimal Literals"
> > has no length limitation on 'numeral'.

On Apr 21, 12:50 pm, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> Hmm, I don't see it saying this. Do you mean that the syntax rule specifies
> not limit?

That's right.  The language places no limit on the length of
numerals.  See Bob Duff's "nit" for a qualification.  Every compiler
will have some limit, but that doesn't affect the language definition.

Eric