To answer your question about creat, ken named it. Why does no one ask about aretu?
-rob On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Rob Pike <r...@golang.org> wrote: > It was 6, a holdover from FORTRAN because it used (in effect) the > FORTRAN linker. That number was just the number that of initial bytes that > had to be unique. x12345 and x123456 were the same identifier. Case might > be ignored too. > > -rob > > > > > On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Tom Limoncelli <t...@whatexit.org> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > -- 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.
