Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!macuni!news
From: news@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz (USENET News System)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: long identifiers
Keywords: identifiers
Message-ID: <752@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>
Date: 10 Nov 90 03:25:19 GMT
References: <272477A0.6845@tct.uucp> <698@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <1907@necisa.ho.necisa.oz>
Organization: Macquarie University, School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics
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In article <1907@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> boyd (Boyd Roberts) writes:
>In article <698@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> I (USENET News System) write:
>>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?

Yes, but I made a mistake. Obviously I should have written

#define long_name_one LN1
#define long_name_two LN2

so please suppose that I did. What then of the 9th commandment?