Re: Length limit for variable names in your language?

["Mark Yudkin" <myudkin@compuserve.com>]

IBM OS PL/I: 31
IBM VA PL/I: 100

"Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam> wrote in message
news:WQs7DB0rYxJ6@eisner.encompasserve.org...
> In article <3AFE60D8.6C3282B7@my-deja.com>, No Na Me
<No_Na_Me@my-deja.com> writes:
> > What this limit is for
> > C++,Fortran,Lisp,Pascal etcetcetc ?
>
> Section 2.2 of the Ada95 Language Reference Manual says that any
> conforming compiler must support lexical elements of at least 200
> characters in length.
>
> Individual compilers are free to support more, but that caused me
> pain when I tried to move a (mechanically generated) program from
> a compiler that supported more than 200 character identifiers (an
> Ada83 compiler, actually) to a compiler that set the limit at 200.
> My mechanical program generation had some identifiers longer than
> 200 characters (to preserve information from which the program was
> generated).
>
>
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