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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MAJOR ANSI C FLAW (my opinion, of course)
Message-ID: <1246@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 12:32:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.1246
Posted: Fri Oct  9 12:32:52 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Oct-87 15:47:58 EDT
References: <1132@gilsys.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
Lines: 15
Keywords: external names, length, bogosity to the max

In article <1132@gilsys.UUCP> mc68020@gilsys.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) writes:
>	   ******  S  I  X  ******  character [single] case external names!!!!!!
...
>    I defy ANYONE to offer a rational, realistic explanation for this 
>abomination.  This decision was obviously political, as there *IS* no rational
>technical reason for such a crock.

No modern system requires such short external identifiers.  You can
safely ignore this limit.  Consider 8 significant characters to be a
reasonable limit.  Even that's taking things a bit too far, considering
that for $61 I can get a largely-ANSI-conformant C compiler on my
MS-DOS machine, complete with linker, that supports far longer external
identifiers.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi