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: 101deb,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,59d1a7436aa0f405 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-14 17:16:56 PST Path: archiver1.sj.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: revbob@the.rectory (Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml,comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: Length limit for variable names in your language? Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 00:16:56 -0000 Organization: http://home.hiwaay.net/~crispen/ Message-ID: References: <3AFE60D8.6C3282B7@my-deja.com> <9dme2e$4od$1@news.ox.ac.uk> <3AFF40AF.C7FB3D9C@uol.com.br> User-Agent: Xnews/M3 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7507 comp.lang.awk:2446 comp.lang.clarion:19298 comp.lang.java.programmer:67602 comp.lang.pl1:580 comp.lang.vrml:3240 comp.lang.ruby:9310 Date: 2001-05-15T00:16:56+00:00 List-Id: 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?