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in thread PERL Variable Name, Significant length

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show_of_this_weeks_YAPC__Europe_and_as_far_as_I_can_remember_
it_was_251_characters_i_am_not sure_but_I_am_guessing =251;

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This line was soooo long that it blew up the Monk server rendering engine. Readers can paste the lines together into a single line if they want, but what's the point? You get the idea!!!

That $var name is only 167 chars long and makes my brain hurt! I have typed single command line command that long, but they are doing a lot of running this, piping that, etc...

If you are getting "Identifier too long", I think some serious thought about naming conventions is in order!

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Re^4: PERL Variable Name, Significant length
by moritz (Cardinal) on Aug 07, 2009 at 14:05 UTC
    I just want to point out that long variable names can make very much sense in generated code - they can make quite a difference in readability, compared to short but semi-random names.
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