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   Steven G. Kargl to Gary Scott   
   Re: Implicit Semicolons And Statement-Co   
   07 Feb 24 00:48:58   
   
   From: sgk@REMOVEtroutmask.apl.washington.edu   
      
   On Tue, 06 Feb 2024 15:34:25 -0600, Gary Scott wrote:   
      
   > On 2/6/2024 1:56 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 6 Feb 2024 10:58:20 -0600, Gary Scott wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>    So I'd probably use longer lengths than below ...   
   >>   
   >> In the only one of the three languages that imposes line-length limits?   
   >>   
   >> Now *that’s* living dangerously ...   
   > Not really, its a quite long limit.  And a warning at compile time is   
   > issued if by some weird chance I hit the limit in the standard (132)   
   > (and most compilers have a much longer limit still (Intel 2048)).   
      
   The Fortran 2023 standard has increased the limit.   
      
     6.3.2.1 Free form line length   
     ...   
     A line shall contain at most ten thousand characters.   
      
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