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    When you have code that exceeds the 80 characters how can you make the complier know that the line isn't finished and the rest of it is on subsequent lines?
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    ... The compiler knows when a line finishes by the ending ; on almost every statement except preprocessor codes (begin with #).

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    what 80 char limit are you talking about. you will can write a sinlge line of code over ten lines if you want just use a ; to tell the compiler its the end of a line.

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    "What they said
    - you can write
    any command over
    as many lines of
    code as you want,
    like this.

    The compiler only
    recognises the end
    of a line when there's
    a semi-colon at the end
    of it";


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