Re: Long names are doom ?

To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Long names are doom ?
From: "Steve Wart" <swart@deadspam.com>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 00:45:03 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Visual Knowledge
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Xref: traf.lcs.mit.edu comp.lang.c:486702 comp.lang.apl:18640 comp.lang.dylan:13320 comp.lang.clos:5186 comp.lang.smalltalk:114082

How about spaces in names of identifiers is doom?

Holy smokes. I knew I stopped at FORTRAN 77 for a reason :)

Cheers,
Steve

"morgan mair fheal" <mair_fheal@www.yahoo.com> wrote in message
mair_fheal-2505012032520001@c8.ppp.tsoft.com">news:mair_fheal-2505012032520001@c8.ppp.tsoft.com...
> In article <xSqP6.75$XQ6.3413@news.get2net.dk>, "Jim Lucas"
> <jel@danbbs.dk> wrote:
>
> >"Steve Wart" <swart@deadspam.com> wrote ...
> >> "00001111" <00001111@my-deja.net> wrote ...
> >>
> >> >   Anybody use variables/names longer than 31 character
> >> > and finds it really useful ?
> >> >
> >> > Then please respond  why, where, when.
> >> > I have folks here in comp.lang.fortran who claim....
> >>
> >> ICANSEEWHYTHATMIGHTBEAPROBLEMINFORTRAN
> >>
> >> inSmalltalkHoweverItIsVeryCommonToHaveLongIdentifiers
>
> i lost track with fortan 90 but up to that point blanks could be freely
> inserted anywhere except in strings
>
> i use code things like
>
>         p r o g r a m  m a i n
>         i n t e g e r  p
> 100     f o r m a t ( *p=* i 1 0 )
>         d o  1  p = 1 , 1 0
>         p r i n t  1 0 0 , p
>   1     c o n t i n u e
>         e n d

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From: mair_fheal@www.yahoo.akadns.net (morgan mair fheal)