From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-09 02:13:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed5!btnet!easynet-melon!easynet.net!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Kent Dahl Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 11:15:36 +0200 Organization: NTNU Message-ID: <3B21E938.2221099D@stud.ntnu.no> References: <3B0DBD4A.82943473@my-deja.net> <9ekrc2$hk0$1@news.fsu.edu> <9eln0p$24p$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f0d96$j3t$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: v128a.studby.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 992078008 16911 129.241.150.128 (9 Jun 2001 09:13:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 09:13:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:10525 comp.lang.ada:8482 comp.lang.awk:2947 comp.lang.clarion:21531 comp.lang.java.programmer:74967 comp.lang.pl1:948 comp.lang.vrml:3687 Date: 2001-06-09T11:15:36+02:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > or be set to some really big number that in practice will never be > exceeded - like 256 or 512.) I keep seeing 256 and thinking of Visual C++ 6.0 warnings that the STL identifiers get truncated. So the arbitrary large (from a human point of view) 256 limit is pretty small (from a machine point of view). Oh, but then again C++ is off-topic on all the ng's :-P -- <[ Kent Dahl ]>================<[ http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~kentda/ ]> )____(stud.techn.;ind.�k.data)||(softwareDeveloper.at(Trustix))_( /"Opinions expressed are mine and not those of my Employer, "\ ( "the University, my girlfriend, stray cats, banana fruitflies, " ) \"nor the frontal lobe of my left cerebral hemisphere. "/