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Reader's Clinic - Line Length > 256 Characters

A person who wishes to remain anonymous had problems compilimg a program - the compiler kept reporting "terminator missing on line x". Looking at line x, there didn't seem to be a problem, all delimiters nicely balanced.

Then we noticed that the line (it was a call to MSG) had a literal of length greater than 256 characters. Mystery solved. AREV does not like literal strings this big , so if long messages are needed use A : B E.g. "end of" : "my message".

(On a similar note, remember that TCL statements such as LIST should not exceed 1000 characters. If they do, the report does not work. So be careful with long dict. names!)

(Volume 1, Issue 4, Page 11)
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