Newsgroups: perl.perl6.internals
Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.perl.org
Return-Path: <l...@toetsch.at>
Mailing-List: contact perl6-internals-h...@perl.org; run by ezmlm
Delivered-To: mailing list perl6-intern...@perl.org
Delivered-To: perl6-intern...@perl.org
Message-ID: <3E85703A.7040901@toetsch.at>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 11:06:50 +0100
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011129
X-Accept-Language: en-us
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Mark Biggar <mark.a.big...@attbi.com>
Cc: perl6-intern...@perl.org
Subject: Re: [perl #21729] IMCC doesn't handle scientific notation constants
References: <200303282043.PAA11529@pacino.3wmail.com> <3E853C3C.6000307@attbi.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-SMTPD: qpsmtpd/0.25, http://develooper.com/code/qpsmtpd/
X-Spam-Check-By: one.develooper.com
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.4 required=7.0 tests=CARRIAGE_RETURNS,DATE_IN_PAST_03_06,REFERENCES,RT_TAG,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.44
X-SMTPD: qpsmtpd/0.25, http://develooper.com/code/qpsmtpd/
Approved: n...@nntp.perl.org
From: l...@toetsch.at (Leopold Toetsch)
Lines: 17

Mark Biggar wrote:

>  On a related note does IMCC have a
> token or line length limit?


Not currently, see BUGS. But there ought to be one. There are several 
places where e.g. an intermediate string is fixed with size 512 or so.

We need some kind of notation for long string constants, that allow for 
reasonable line length limit.

leo