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Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Trick for identifiers > 32
Keywords: C++ DOS OS/2
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Date: 20 Sep 89 20:10:39 GMT
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Reply-To: kearns@cs.columbia.edu
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
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Hi.  Here is a nifty trick I use to get around the problem of
translators that generate names which are not unique in the first
32 characters.  

If your class is called "BigString", then at the top of your
BigString.h file put 
"#define BigString bS"

This makes the internal name of BigString the much shorter name bS
and has always solved my problems.  

-steve