long identifiers

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In article <1907 at necisa.ho.necisa.oz> boyd (Boyd Roberts) writes:
>In article <698 at macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> I (USENET News System) write:
>>Why not have your long variable names, and for your
>>crummy 6-chars-only machine #include a file with stuff like:
>>#define LN1 long_name_one
>>#define LN2 long_name_two
>
>Eh?  Do you understand the operation of the the preprocessor?

Yes, but I made a mistake. Obviously I should have written

#define long_name_one LN1
#define long_name_two LN2

so please suppose that I did. What then of the 9th commandment?