On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:35:19 -0500, Peter Relson wrote:
>
>Having said that, we are considering a convention under which symbol
>values can be longer than the symbol name, with the user's understanding
>that any truncation that results may be ignored.
> 
I would much favor a convention that reports the truncation as an error.
Then it's up to the caller to handle or ignore it.

-- gil

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