[fpc-pascal] Breaking Pascal source lines

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
> 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.

In particular things like += which might not be expected by people used 
to other dialects.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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