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From: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: 6 character external identifiers
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Date: Tue, 17-Jul-84 09:56:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 17 09:56:18 1984
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Organization: "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
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>From: hansen@pegasus.UUCP (Tony L. Hansen)
>
>I don't recall in Henry Spencer's summary any mention on the significant
>character limits on the C preprocessor. Will that remain at the old limit of
>8 characters, will it be extended as well to 31 characters, or will it go to
>an infinite limit as currently allowed by the BSD and S5r2 flexnames
>implementation? 

Don't worry.  To quote from Henry Spencer's summary:

    1. Long identifiers. [...] Internal names (including pre-
	processor names) are now significant to 31 characters.