Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: long identifiers
Message-ID: <1990Oct26.154726.26846@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <15953@csli.Stanford.EDU> <487@taumet.com> <15959@csli.Stanford.EDU> <272477A0.6845@tct.uucp> <1925@tuvie>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 90 15:47:26 GMT

In article <1925@tuvie> hp@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@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry