grahamr@azure.UUCP (Graham Ross) (10/18/84)
Something that (I think) has not been mentioned is that in most cases, people with limited linkers and assemblers have already been forced to solve this problem for other languages, or tolerate non-portability. There is no need for X3J11 to be nice to the few who've waited in the dark so long for a sucker committee. It's not an unsolved problem, it's just one of those things. I vote for longer IDs. Six is off by at least a factor of two. A 6-char limit is like a 6-inch trout: throw it back. Graham Ross, Tektronix, tektronix!tekmdp!grahamr
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (10/22/84)
> I vote for longer IDs. Six is off by at least a factor of two.
As I've mentioned before, there are only two good numbers: six and
infinity. Setting a larger fixed limit makes no sense, because most
of the people who can't deliver full flexnames can't deliver a limit
larger than six either.
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