From: "Edward Rosten" <look@my.sig>
Subject: Re: Length limit for variable names in your language?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 10:01:23 +0100
Date: 2001-05-14T10:01:23+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9do3c2$2e$1@news.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3AFF40AF.C7FB3D9C@uol.com.br
In article <3AFF40AF.C7FB3D9C@uol.com.br>, "Cesar Rabak"
<csrabak@uol.com.br> wrote:
> Edward Rosten wrote:
>>
>> > 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
>
> The present standard (a.k.a. C99) changes this to:
I was referring to the C89(?) standard. C89 compliant (or nearly)
compilers are still much more common. However things depending on
external linkage are really at the mercy of the linker and library
software opn the host system.
-ed
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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
2001-05-14 2:19 ` Cesar Rabak
2001-05-14 9:01 ` Edward Rosten [this message]
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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