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From: cgoudeseune@watnot.UUCP (center of gravity)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c++,net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: C++ preprocessor wanted
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Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 18:10:12 EDT
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Summary: possible solution

I hear all these complaints that most C's only support 8-character
identifiers, and the C++ preprocessor *needs* thirty-two.

Say we use only 7-character letters-only identifiers.
26^7 = 8 031 810 176.
Seeing as how any C++ preprocessor is unlikely to produce over 8 billion
different identifiers, is there a good reason why a little filter couldn't
be inserted between C++'s output and C's input to shrink the size of these
huge identifiers to a manageable size.
Sure, it's slow; we've got a 8 MHz 68000.  Sure, it's a kludge; it works!
(I hope)

Camille