From: "Edward Rosten" <look@my.sig>
Subject: Re: Length limit for variable names in your language?
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:51:44 +0100
Date: 2001-05-13T18:51:44+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9dme2e$4od$1@news.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3AFE60D8.6C3282B7@my-deja.com
> What this limit is for C++,Fortran,Lisp,Pascal etcetcetc ?
According to K&R 2nd edition, C guarntees that at least the first 31
characters of an internal name are significant. The standard guarntees 6
monocase characters for external identifiers, minimum.
-Ed
> Since this is multi-newsggroups message please do not forget to mention
> the language :-) Thanks
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-13 10:24 Length limit for variable names in your language? No Na Me
2001-05-13 14:57 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-15 5:42 ` Mark Yudkin
2001-05-13 17:51 ` Edward Rosten [this message]
2001-05-14 2:19 ` Cesar Rabak
2001-05-14 9:01 ` Edward Rosten
2001-05-14 13:36 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-15 0:16 ` Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen
2001-05-13 17:55 ` Tim Tyler
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