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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Required Metrics
Date: 2000/05/18
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"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@earthlink.net> writes:

>...And the blasted ACVC tests checked that the compiler DID NOT
> accept longer lines, whle requiring that you accept an identifier that
> was the same length as a line.

That test is clearly wrong.  I'm surprised nobody has challenged it.
There is no requirement that a compiler impose a maximum line-length
limit, and there never has been.

I guess it's easier to make your compiler pass a test than it is to go
through the challenge process.  Sigh.

- Bob