Did the limit in C used to be 5 characters? That would explain "creat()".
(That's a bit of trivia I've always wondered about) Tom On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 3:57 AM, Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 12:23 PM <wei.x...@arm.com> wrote: >> >>> But i don't find such specification for Golang.Is there any limit on the >>> length of an identifier in Golang? >> >> The lack of a specified limit implies no limit other than resources >> available to the compiler and/or the program. > > Yes. > > Also, that's not precisely what the ISO C standard says. What it says > is that every C compiler must accept programs that use identifiers > that do not differ in the first 31 characters. It doesn't say that > the compiler must treat identifiers whose first 32 characters are the > same as being the same. In practice modern C compilers also have no > limit on identifier length. > > (Historically the limits on C identifier length have been imposed not > by compilers but by object file formats. Compilers have historically > had no limits on identifier length for internal identifiers but when > generating object files have been forced to limit external identifiers > to the length permitted by the object file format. Modern object file > formats (ELF, PE/COFF) have no limits on identifier length, which is a > requirement for even relatively simple C++ programs.) > > Ian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Email: t...@whatexit.org Work: tlimonce...@stackoverflow.com Blog: http://EverythingSysadmin.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
