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Re: Generating valid identifiers

From Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Subject Re: Generating valid identifiers
Date 2012-07-26 17:43 +0200
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Laszlo Nagy wrote:

> I do not want this program to generate very long identifiers. It would
> increase SQL parsing time, and don't look good. Let's just say that the
> limit should be 32 characters. But I also want to recognize the
> identifiers when I look at their modified/truncated names.

Reality check: the shortened identifiers will look worse, parsing time is 
negligable -- and it will be hard to recognize the mangled identifiers.

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Re: Generating valid identifiers Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-07-26 17:43 +0200

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