Re: Name lengths in C code

[Damien Neil]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 05:09:52PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Just a reminder--function names shouldn't exceed 31 characters. The C 
> standard doesn't guarantee anything past that...

You think that's bad?  You aren't guaranteed more than six characters,
case-insensitive for external identifiers.

I've been told that Oracle actually requires conformance to this
in their coding standards.  I'm very happy that I don't have to
write code for Orcale...

                             - Damien