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From: poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: long identifiers
Keywords: identifiers
Message-ID: <15959@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 22 Oct 90 20:30:42 GMT
References: <15953@csli.Stanford.EDU> <487@taumet.com>
Reply-To: poser@csli.stanford.edu (Bill Poser)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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In article <487@taumet.com> steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) writes:
>
>Yes, you are correct -- until your code gets ported to a system which
>does not support long external names.  Your local Tarot reader will be
>able to tell when or whether that will happen.

Nope. I'm talking about code entirely under my control, and which
given its nature (it requires graphics facilities, a mouse, lots of memory,
etc.) is extremely unlikely to be ported to old machines.