Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alberta.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!alberta!jeff From: jeff@alberta.UUCP (C. J. Sampson) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: 6 char externs and the ANSI standard Message-ID: <179@alberta.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 21:31:08 EDT Article-I.D.: alberta.179 Posted: Thu Oct 4 21:31:08 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 05:26:04 EDT References: <4095@tekecs.UUCP> Organization: his Personal Computer Lines: 15 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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ C. J. Sampson Snail Canada: #712 11135-83rd ave. ***DISCLAIMER*** ihnp4!alberta!jeff Edmonton, Alberta +--------------+ ubc-vision!alberta!jeff CANADA T6G 2C8 | These may | sask!alberta!jeff | be opinions. | +--------------+ "He who spends the storm beneath a tree, takes life with a grain of TNT."