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|    Gary Scott to Steven G. Kargl    |
|    Re: Implicit Semicolons And Statement-Co    |
|    06 Feb 24 20:12:19    |
      From: garylscott@sbcglobal.net              On 2/6/2024 6:48 PM, Steven G. Kargl wrote:       > 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.       >       I was thinking that, but didn't find it in a quick search. Not sure       what compilers support it yet though.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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