Re: Length limit for variable names in your language?

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

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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