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From: ftw@masscomp.UUCP (Farrell Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 509?? (Re: Max line length)
Message-ID: <906@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 89 23:09:47 GMT
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Reply-To: ftw@quasar.masscomp.UUCP (Farrell Woods)
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation - Westford, Ma
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In article <9847@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>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...

>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.

Allow me, then, to ask:  (without a whit of sarcasam) Why 509?


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