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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.   
      
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