Re: Length limit for variable names in your language?

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• Subject: Re: Length limit for variable names in your language?
• From: Ted Edwards <Ted_E@bc.sympatico.ca>
• Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 16:15:02 -0400 (EDT)
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WildHeart'2k1 wrote:
 
> In recent versions of Dyalog APL I've tried to create variables whose name
> was 10000 characters and long and it all worked. Except for playing

APL2 can handle a lot more characters in a name than I would want to
type and I fail to see the point of machine generating names on any
system with nested arrays.

Ted

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