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,FREEMAIL_FROM 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: 1073c2,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-14 22:42:47 PST Path: archiver1.sj.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.compuserve.com!news-master.compuserve.com!not-for-mail From: "Mark Yudkin" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Length limit for variable names in your language? Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 07:42:50 +0200 Organization: CompuServe Interactive Services Message-ID: <9dqfkk$7sp$1@sshuraac-i-1.production.compuserve.com> References: <3AFE60D8.6C3282B7@my-deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: fra-pci-laf-vty83.as.wcom.net X-Trace: sshuraac-i-1.production.compuserve.com 989905364 8089 212.211.64.83 (15 May 2001 05:42:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@compuserve.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 May 2001 05:42:44 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7510 comp.lang.awk:2448 comp.lang.clarion:19325 comp.lang.java.programmer:67632 comp.lang.pl1:582 comp.lang.vrml:3241 Date: 2001-05-15T05:42:44+00:00 List-Id: IBM OS PL/I: 31 IBM VA PL/I: 100 "Larry Kilgallen" wrote in message news:WQs7DB0rYxJ6@eisner.encompasserve.org... > In article <3AFE60D8.6C3282B7@my-deja.com>, No Na Me 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). > > ============================================================================ == > Great Inventors of our time: Al Gore -> Internet; Sun Microsystems -> Clusters > ============================================================================ ==