Not to be rude, but no matter how large your program is getting, you have a design problem if you are having to use 30-50 character-length descriptive names for variables and subroutines. I'd go back and fix things up a bit. I have never come across a valid reason for needing to go past 20 characters per item. By using these ridiculously long identifiers, you are creating a maintenance nightmare; nobody else will even want to look at your code, never mind having to actually update the code. 

# 49 characters? my deity, what could possibly be wrong
# with this horrid picture?
my $path_to_configuartion_file_for_apache_http_server = '/etc/httpd/co
+nf/httpd.conf';

# 37 characters. just as bad as the 49 charaters above.
sub get_the_path_for_apache_configuration {
    return "who cares?";
}

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In reply to Re^2: Does the size of a variable's name affect memory? by saskaqueer
in thread Does the size of a variable's name affect memory? by nmerriweather

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