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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.              --       steve              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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