Using identifiers with more than 7 chars. #$%@

[Tom Keller]

In article <526 at dsi1.UUCP>, ron at dsi1.UUCP (Ron Flax) writes:
> Sorry  for posting here but where else does one post to readers of this
> newsgroup?
> 
> [FLAME ON!]
> 
> I  wish  that the people that post sources to the net would try to keep
> in mind that some of us have compilers that can't swollow  indentifiers
> that are longer than seven (7) characters long.  Now I know that all of
> you guys and gals in BSDLand like to make you programs look real pretty
> with  all  those  nice  long  descriptive  names for your functions and
> macros but some of your less fortunate  counterparts  don't  have  this
> luxury and it's a real pain to go through an entire program full of
> 
> 	system_call_seven (what_ever_cmd_five);
> 		. . .
> 	system_call_eight (what_ever_cmd_four);
> 
> you  get  my drift?  I realize that some programs are not going to port
> to some machines, but when someone claims to the  net  that  a  program
> will  be  "easy  to  port" or that "it should run on..."  they could at
> least make an attempt to verify  this  fact.    Maybe  they  should  be
> sentenced  to  work  on  a  machine  that  chokes  on  the    slightest
> inconsistancy for a while.
> 
> [FLAME OFF now.]


   Indeed.  As an additional aside (my appologies to you UNIX-purists in 
advance) but believe it or not, *SOME* of us are running Ultrix, or XENIX,
or some other form of UNIX!  If you are going to post software with major
system dependencies (such as long identifier names) LABEL them in the
summary, damn it!


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tom keller
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