Variable names

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• Newzed Posts: 2,503

  2004-08-12 19:23 edited 2004-08-12 19:23

  No.· Regardless of the variable name it only takes space according to what you assign it - word, byte, nibble or bit.· I think the name of a variable is limited to 16 characters.
  
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• Tom Walker Posts: 509

  2004-08-12 19:24 edited 2004-08-12 19:24

  All together..."There's no such thing as a stupid question" <g>
  
  These two statements should take up the same amount of space. I'll leave the subject of compilers, tokens, symbol tables, etc. as an exercise for the reader <g>, but suffice it to say that both lines just tell the compiler to set aside a byte of space to be used later.
  
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• Jon Williams Posts: 6,491

  2004-08-12 20:12 edited 2004-08-12 20:12

  Symbol names (variables, constants, and program labels) may be up to 32 characters long.
  
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• dk_akj Posts: 37

  2004-08-13 05:21 edited 2004-08-13 05:21

  Everybody,
  
  Thanks for the answers.
  
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  akj