Using identifiers with more than 7 chars. #$%@
Ron Flax
ron at dsi1.UUCP
Tue Mar 4 10:40:50 AEST 1986
Sorry for posting here but where else does one post to readers of this
newsgroup?
[FLAME ON!]
I wish that the people that post sources to the net would try to keep
in mind that some of us have compilers that can't swollow indentifiers
that are longer than seven (7) characters long. Now I know that all of
you guys and gals in BSDLand like to make you programs look real pretty
with all those nice long descriptive names for your functions and
macros but some of your less fortunate counterparts don't have this
luxury and it's a real pain to go through an entire program full of
system_call_seven (what_ever_cmd_five);
. . .
system_call_eight (what_ever_cmd_four);
you get my drift? I realize that some programs are not going to port
to some machines, but when someone claims to the net that a program
will be "easy to port" or that "it should run on..." they could at
least make an attempt to verify this fact. Maybe they should be
sentenced to work on a machine that chokes on the slightest
inconsistancy for a while.
[FLAME OFF now.]
--
Ron Flax (ron at dsi1.UUCP)
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