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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada standard and maximum line lengths
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:49:37 -0500
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Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> writes:

> I was reading the Ada 2012 standard and found this, I was just
> wondering why there is a maximum line length, ...

I don't think the RM should have that, and I think compilers
ought to support arbitrary line lengths and identifier lengths,
up to whatever limits are imposed by the hardware and operating
system, or at least high enough that nobody will run into them
(including in automatically-generated code).

>...it's not like we parse
> the language a line at a time. Why not just accept it as a stream of
> tokens and if there are line breaks, ignore?

Line breaks aren't ignored (they terminate comments, and they are
illegal in string literals), but yeah, there's no problem parsing
files with very long lines.

- Bob