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 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: 107a89,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-13 06:57:33 PST Path: archiver1.sj.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!news.iac.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) 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? Message-ID: References: <3AFE60D8.6C3282B7@my-deja.com> Organization: LJK Software Date: 13 May 2001 09:57:18 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 989762242 216.44.122.34 (Sun, 13 May 2001 13:57:22 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 13:57:22 GMT Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7456 comp.lang.awk:2425 comp.lang.clarion:19136 comp.lang.java.programmer:67213 comp.lang.pl1:573 comp.lang.vrml:3224 Date: 2001-05-13T09:57:18-05:00 List-Id: 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 ==============================================================================