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Subject: Re: long identifiers
Keywords: identifiers
Message-ID: <698@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>
Date: 31 Oct 90 03:06:45 GMT
References: <487@taumet.com> <15959@csli.Stanford.EDU> <272477A0.6845@tct.uucp>
Organization: Macquarie University, School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics
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poser@csli.stanford.edu (Bill Poser):
> ... wants to know about long external identifier names ...

In article <272477A0.6845@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> ... quotes Spencer's 10th [9th?] commandment for C programmers

I wonder about this. Why not have your long variable names, and for your
crummy 6-chars-only machine #include a file with stuff like:

#define LN1 long_name_one
#define LN2 long_name_two
...
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James Picton-Warlow,
jamespw@mqcomp.mqcs.mq.oz.au or some such