long identifiers

Henry Spencer henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Sat Oct 27 01:47:26 AEST 1990


In article <1925 at tuvie> hp at vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer) writes:
>"9.	Thy external identifiers shall be unique in the first six 
>	characters, though this harsh discipline be irksome..."
> ...
>...Restricting identifier names to 6 characters is a BUG ...

Quite.  Which is why the Commandment doesn't call for that.  Read it again.
-- 
The type syntax for C is essentially   | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
unparsable.             --Rob Pike     |  henry at zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry



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