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In article <SPACKMAN.92Oct14140403@disco-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de> spackman@disco-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de (Stephen Spackman) writes:

   And languages like C that are constantly forcing you up against
   the inane 32-character identifier limit just so that you can be
   tolerably sure your names won't collide are absurd.

While I agree that there should be no limit on the number of
characters in an identifier, making identifiers longer is not a
feasible solution to the name collision problem. Regardless of how
long you make your identifiers, there are bound to be conflicts
between different libraries.

The right solution is to provide module systems that are powerful
enough to deal with the problem. Sadly, few module systems are (most
of them avoid name conflicts at the identifier level and reintroduce
them at the module level).

					Thomas.