[2185] in java-interest
Re: identifier length
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Tue Sep 26 17:31:04 1995
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 10:59:38 -0800 (PDT)
From: Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Elliotte@blackstar.com
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi Elliotte,
> 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?
It is not limited. Eventually you could run out of memory though...
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff
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