Re: Length limit for variable names in your language?

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• Subject: Re: Length limit for variable names in your language?
• From: "WildHeart'2k1" <stf+inetnews@apl.it>
• Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 03:45:03 -0400 (EDT)
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> 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.

I used to think the same. Until, as my being part of a large team developing
APL applications, I realized that stuffing things into nested arrays, and
then accessing them by index is cause of endless and painful bugs because
human beings are very bad at handling numbers. Therefore I am more and more
resorting to namespaces with variables in them the way a C programmer would
use structures.
--
    WildHeart'2k1

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