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In article <lf0nn6INNp2m@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:
>What was the reasoning behind the ANSI C standard specifying lower 
>limits on the sizes of programs that must successfully translate?
>
>For example, a conforming compiler must allow at least 8 levels of nested
>#include files, or "at least 12 pointer, array, and function declarators
>(in any combination) modifying a ... type in a declaration."
>
>Compiler limits are usually a "quality of implementation" issue; why
>write them into the standard?  I don't know any other language standard
>that specifies at this level.

Common Lisp specifies minimum values for the number of parameters that
may appear in a lambda-list (50), the number of arguments that may be
passed to a function (at least the lambda parameters minimum), and the
number of values that may be returned from a function (20).  These
values are available to the user at run-time via the constants
lambda-parameters-limit, call-arguments-limit, and multiple-values-
limit.
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