Re: 30 character limit / workarounds?

Danny boy -- there have been many times in the two decades that i've been developing that i would have enjoyed the option to have longer object names -- more-so as i do more and more complex system.

Most reasonable naming conventions often include combined names, prefixes, suffixes, and separator characters. 30 characters and be chewed up really, really quickly.

• mcs

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1069089162.759651_at_yasure...
| FlameDance wrote:
| > Anurag Varma wrote:
| >
| >> You would find lot of us asking the question: Why would you want to
| >> name an object
| >> using more than 30 characters.
| >
| >
| > The answer is here:
| >
| > >>I am generating SQL and PL/SQL code from data. If I use the table and
| > >>identifier names that a "naive" approach suggests then I often run
into
| > >>the 30 character limit for names and identifiers.
| >
| > If I don't do it, I'll have to find a way to simulate it.
| >
| > Stephan
|
| You have offered an explanation, of sorts, but still no clarity. How
| is it that all of us have been developing for more than a decade and
| never required longer names, and yet "you" have a problem?
|
| I'd reconsider your "need" and reconsider it to be just a "preference"
| and one that many think indicative of a bad design, or in my case,
| indicative of a front-end developer thinking that they can treat the
| back-end with the same rules: You can't.
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Received on Mon Nov 17 2003 - 14:08:34 CST