Re: Length limit for variable names in your language?

[Tim Tyler <tt@cryogen.com>]

Java - from the end of:

  http://java.sun.com/docs/books/vmspec/html/ClassFile.doc.html

``The amount of code per method is limited to 65535 bytes by the sizes of
  the indices in the exception_table of the Code attribute (�4.7.4), in
  the LineNumberTable attribute (�4.7.6), and in the LocalVariableTable
  attribute (�4.7.7).''

I believe this is the major limitation that might reflect on
the maximum length of local variable names in Java bytecode.

I can't find any maximum limit on the length of static variables - this
might in principle depend on the availablility of memory.

Since these limits are in the VM specification - and no limits appear to
be specified in the language specification - a compiler may be at liberty
to rename private variables to avoid the issue.
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