In article <cja### [at] netplexaussieorg> , 
Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>  wrote:

>> Actually, I prefer parsers that do not enforce arbitrary bounds. I've become
>> pretty perlish in my coding practices in the last decade, and I now
>> recognize my responsibility as the programmer is to know what the limits are
>> and to break them only when necessary. The parser's responsibility goes no
>> further than accurately translating what I write into executable code. If I
>> want to do something "illegal", I don't want some stupid parser yapping that
>> I can't do that.
>
> Right...the parser shouldn't say anything if you do something wrong, it
> should just mysteriously fail. That's wonderful for user-friendliness.
> (Yuck, Perl...)
>
>> This conflicts with your statement that the boundaries are platform/compiler
>> dependent, and not a part of POV itself.
>
> No it doesn't. By looking at the source code, you can tell what
> platform-dependant constants are being used.

Sorry, haven't had time to follow-up on this thread.  Your answer is exactly
what I would have answered.

    Thorsten

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