[fpc-pascal] Breaking Pascal source lines

[Bernd Oppolzer]

Am 06.09.2013 18:16, schrieb Bernd Oppolzer:
> To keep the syntax correct, you can break after every symbol, that is:
>
> not inside identifiers,
> not inside numbers (including floating point constants)
> not inside quoted strings
>
> but anywhere else
>
> I am using a Pascal pretty print program, that knows
> about the syntax (a little) and outputs the source in
> lines of 72 chars at most - this limit can be modified via parameter, 
> IIRC.
>
> But: at the moment it accepts only classical Pascal syntax (my extension
> of Stanford P4) - no FPC. So it makes not much sense to share it.
> But I compiled it with FPC recently, and it ran without problems on 
> Windows.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Bernd
>

it's not quite correct;
if there are symbols like := that consist of more than one char,
you must not break in the middle.

Kind regards

Bernd