[TUHS] early cc variable and function names

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Fri Oct 17 12:21:59 AEST 2014


On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Mark Longridge wrote:

> It seems like early cc could only use variable and function names up to 
> 8 characters.

In those days it took only the first seven and ignored the rest, 
prepending an underscore as you discovered.  I don't remember when longer 
names were recognised; for all I know it could've been around when 
pathnames could be longer than 14 chars (which I think may have been a 
BSDism).

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