RE: procedure parameter names

These are programmers, Charles. Worse yet, compiler writers. "Witty" is not an adjective often used to describe this lot. .-)

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 2:16 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: procedure parameter names

So does anybody else want Barbara to break out some of those 4096
character long names just to see how witty they are?

Charles

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 5/20/2010 7:05 AM, Larry Ducie wrote:

... I can only
think that the ability to code a variable with a name 4096 bytes long
is a case of Barbara et al showing off in a grand fashion, more than
out of any kind of necessity on the developer's part. A slight but
welcome over-compensation methinks - the compiler team equivalent of
buying a sports car at 40. ;-)

Bzzt - that one wasn't mine.  If I recall correctly, there was some
external requirement for 4096-long names, maybe for a program generator
that was generating procedures with long names.  I think the requirement
disappeared, but RPG got long names out of it.

I'd say the real-world equivalent of names 4096 bytes long is buying a
passenger train with the intention of putting in the garage and driving
it in the neighbourhood and on the highway.

I bet that the _only_ programs in existance that use 4096 names for RPG
are testcases in the RPG compiler regression bucket.

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