"Re: Identifier significance CHALLENGE - (nf)"

[Seaman]

One way to handle the hashing problem is to resolve collisions by permuting
the last character, if necessary, after truncating.  For example, suppose
you want a maximum identifier length of 6 characters and the original program
contains (in this order)

	thisisalongidentifier
	thisisanotherlongidentifier
	thisisyetanotherlongidentifier

These would be shortened as follows:

	thisisalongidentifier		->	thisis
	thisisanotherlongidentifier	->	thisit
	thisisyetanotherlongidentifier  ->	thisiu



				Dave Seaman
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