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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 509?? (Re: Max line length)
Message-ID: <9847@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Mar 89 01:58:27 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2285@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
-John Carr and Doug Gwyn both quoted the pANS as requiring compilers to
-accept at least 509 chars of logical line...
-Huh???
-Do X3J11 do their discussing ain between trips to the 7-11 to buy
-lottery tickets or something?
-Did they hit the trifecta at Rosemont betting 5-0-9? (probably required
-themselves to box...:-)

Please don't clutter the net with drivel.

Rest assured that there were good and sufficient reasons for that
particular number.  If you had asked politely I might even have
explained what they were.