[2184] in java-interest
identifier length
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Tue Sep 26 17:01:42 1995
From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <Elliotte@blackstar.com>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 13:11:43 EST
Reply-To: Elliotte@blackstar.com
The java language spec does not seem to indicate how long an
identifier can be. Is there any limit to the length of an
identifier? If I were to write an automatic code generator that
routinely chugged out variables names of a few thousand characters or
more, would something break?
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