6 char externs and the ANSI standard

[C. J. Sampson]

I say NO!  I do not believe that a 6 character limit on external 
variables would be good at all.  For programs to be truely "portable",
they have to run on the vast majority of machines with little or no
change.  If you are going to have to make changes, it is much easier
to do it with program that are well structured and have names like
"last_article_read" rather than "lstard".  If we are going to have a
good language, let's not limit it in a silly way like this.
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