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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: long vs. short names
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Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 15:41:55 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 21 15:41:55 1984
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> 	instead of doggoneid1 being confused with
> 		   doggoneid2 in a truncating compiler, if you declare them
> like this:	   1doggoneid and
> 		   2doggoneid, ie, make the unique part first instead of last,
> then you have portable long ids.  see any holes kids?  ernie harkins

	A tiny hole, you may not start identifiers with numbers.
Try:

		_1doggoneid
		_2doggoneid

Or some such thing.

Don Steiny
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