From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,47bd5b7b3b898723 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: evans@evans.pgh.pa.us (Arthur Evans Jr) Subject: Re: Form feed comment for pragma Page Date: 1996/06/04 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 158479358 references: <4p04vi$3ui$1@mhafn.production.compuserve.com> organization: Ada Consulting newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) 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). Well, form feed (control-L) is an ASCII character and part of the standard character set, but I'm quite surprised to hear that it's a logical-end-of line, for two reasons: - If anything, it's-end-of page, not-end-of line. - And it's not even that. The RM in A.10(8) is quite clear that the standard does not specify which characters, if any, correspond to logical end-of-line or end-of-page or end-of-file. I'll agree that many implementations, probably most of them, choose to implement end-of-page using the ASCII form feed character, but the standard is silent on the subject. Art Evans Arthur Evans Jr, PhD Phone: 412-963-0839 Ada Consulting FAX: 412-963-0927 461 Fairview Road Pittsburgh PA 15238-1933 evans@evans.pgh.pa.us