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From: smith@zeus.harvard.edu (Steven Smith)
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Subject: Re: cweave functionality
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Date: 13 Dec 90 16:03:03 GMT
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> A module in a WEB is supposed to be understood as a single unit.  In
> this light, I think it's *good* that CWEB limits the size of a module
> to about 200 lines.  [Maybe the limit should have been 30 :-) ]

Perhaps, however sometimes one may wish to use cweave only for its
prettyprinting capabilities, at which it is quite good.  In this
instance, this ``feature'' becomes a limitation if the source code is
too long for cweave's memory.

Steven Smith