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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-13 09:52:09 PST Path: archiver1.sj.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!grolier!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!news.ox.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: "Edward Rosten" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml,comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: Length limit for variable names in your language? Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:51:44 +0100 Organization: Oxford University, England Message-ID: <9dme2e$4od$1@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <3AFE60D8.6C3282B7@my-deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: catz-7af.stcatz.ox.ac.uk X-Trace: news.ox.ac.uk 989772686 4877 129.67.7.175 (13 May 2001 16:51:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@ox.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 16:51:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.9.2 (Unix) X-No-Productlinks: Yes Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7459 comp.lang.awk:2426 comp.lang.clarion:19142 comp.lang.java.programmer:67244 comp.lang.pl1:575 comp.lang.vrml:3225 comp.lang.ruby:9251 Date: 2001-05-13T18:51:44+01:00 List-Id: > 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 -- You can't go wrong with psycho-rats. u 9 8 e j r (at) e c s . o x . a c . u k