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From: revbob@the.rectory (Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen)
Subject: Re: Length limit for variable names in your language?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 00:16:56 -0000
Date: 2001-05-15T00:16:56+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Xns90A1C47712188revbob@207.126.101.100> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3AFF40AF.C7FB3D9C@uol.com.br

If y'all promise to take comp.lang.vrml off the followups (fascinating 
though the topic is), I'll give you the skinny on VRML symbolic names:

VRML browsers are required to support up to 50 utf8 octets for symbolic 
names for PROTOs, DEFs, and fields (the only place they apply).  Ref: 
ISO/IEC-14772-1:1997, Clause 7.3.3.

Although VRML files can inline other VRML files, each file has its own 
namespace, so linker considerations don't apply, since the language is 
neither compiled nor linked.

ECMAScript scripts inside VRML files follow ECMA-262, which requires 
symbolic names to be of "unlimited" length.  Ref: ECMA-262, Clause 7.5.
-- 
Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen
crispen at hiwaay dot net

Am I getting smart with you? ....How would you know?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-05-15  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-13 10:24 Length limit for variable names in your language? No Na Me
2001-05-13 14:57 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-15  5:42   ` Mark Yudkin
2001-05-13 17:51 ` Edward Rosten
2001-05-14  2:19   ` Cesar Rabak
2001-05-14  9:01     ` Edward Rosten
2001-05-14 13:36       ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-15  0:16     ` Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen [this message]
2001-05-13 17:55 ` Tim Tyler
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