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: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-26 14:30:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sjo1.usenetserver.com!news-out-sjo.usenetserver.com!e420r-sjo4.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news2.rdc2.tx.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Tom Spilman" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml References: <3B0DBD4A.82943473@my-deja.net> Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2475.0000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2475.0000 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 21:28:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.14.66.84 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news2.rdc2.tx.home.com 990912536 24.14.66.84 (Sat, 26 May 2001 14:28:56 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 14:28:56 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:9977 comp.lang.ada:7809 comp.lang.awk:2612 comp.lang.clarion:20407 comp.lang.java.programmer:71056 comp.lang.pl1:654 comp.lang.vrml:3344 Date: 2001-05-26T21:28:56+00:00 List-Id: People will abuse language features no matter what precautions are taken by the language designers. Limiting maximum length for identifiers for reasons other than technical limits or ease of implementation is naive and forces an unnecessary constraint for legitimate uses. Tom "00001111" <00001111@my-deja.net> wrote in message news:3B0DBD4A.82943473@my-deja.net... > > Hi All, > > Anybody use variables/names longer than 31 character > and finds it really useful ? > > Then please respond why, where, when. > I have folks here in comp.lang.fortran who will die claiming that they > > - "never seen a well written, legible program > that uses any identifiers longer than 18-20 characters..". > - "long variables names are *hard* to read. And, you have to > read though all the characters of every instance of them...". > - "it degrades the legibility of a program to use identifiers that > can't be easily remembered...." > > As a result, despite 90% of computer languages have long, very > long or 'infinite' identifiers, fortran folks seems plan to stay > with their 6...aargh ...sorry this was just not far ago... 31 character > limit intil year 3000. > > cheers > >