17 Oct
2014
17 Oct
'14
8:21 a.m.
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Mark Longridge wrote:
It seems like early cc could only use variable and
function names up to
8 characters.
In those days it took only the first seven and ignored the rest,
prepending an underscore as you discovered. I don't remember when longer
names were recognised; for all I know it could've been around when
pathnames could be longer than 14 chars (which I think may have been a
BSDism).
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