Grant Edwards wrote this on Mon, 14 May 2007 19:22:16 +0000. My reply is below.
>> Of course. If they're any longer than that then you can't fit an >> entire identifier into a 36-bit CDC 6600 machine register so you >> can do a compare with a single machine instruction. While skimming this discussion, I, too, was suffering flashbacks to CDC's 6-bit Hollerith code. -- .. Chuck Rhode, Sheboygan, WI, USA .. Weather: http://LacusVeris.com/WX .. 69° — Wind NNE 6 mph — Sky partly cloudy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
