Re: Length limit for variable names in your language?

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• Subject: Re: Length limit for variable names in your language?
• From: brian.b.mcguinness@lmco.com (Brian McGuinness)
• Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 07:15:02 -0400 (EDT)
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• References: <3AFC62A1.ADCDB52A@my-deja.com> <9do4vv$1c0c$1@stargate1.inet.it> <3B02AFA0.2319@bc.sympatico.ca> <9dvuvu$lta$1@stargate1.inet.it>
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As I recall, in "APL, An Interactive Approach", Gilman & Rose state that 
APL identifiers can be of any length, but only the first 77 characters
are significant.  This was probably standard for the major timesharing
services but may not apply to the current PC implementations.

--- Brian

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