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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: long identifiers
Keywords: identifiers
Message-ID: <1907@necisa.ho.necisa.oz>
Date: 1 Nov 90 02:07:26 GMT
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In article <698@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> news@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz (USENET News System) writes:
>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

Eh?  Do you understand the operation of the the preprocessor?


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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