On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:00:33 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: > >Passwords or userids that may be at most 8 characters in length are >unacceptable today. > Is IBM aware of this? And given the prevailing mode, 7 is significantly worse than 8.
> A limitation to at most 2^15 - 1 = 32767 characters is, in my view >at least, unobjectionable. Larger limitations like this one are often >reflections of control-block overflow problems in some procedural >language. These limitations can be circumvented, but the >concatenation schemes that do so are very tedious. > I had once in a compiler extended an identifier length limit from 8 to 16. When a user submitted an undeniable requirement for 32, I sensed "slippery slope" and implemented a concatention scheme. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
