On 2007-05-14, Michael Yanowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Let me guess - the next step will be to restrict the identifiers
> to be at most 6 characters long.

Of course. If they're any longer than that then you can't fit
an entire identifier into a 26-bit CDC 6600 machine register so
you can do a compare with a single machine instruction.

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