Maximum length of a function name?

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It appears that the maximum length of a function name is 11?

>list

fn aaaaaaaaaaa()

println(“OK 11”)

fend

fn bbbbbbbbbbbb()

println(“ok 12”)

fend

>aaaaaaaaaaa()

OK 11

>bbbbbbbbbbbb()

!unknown identifier:1

>

I thought that a longer name may be truncated to 11 characters but that does not seem to work?

Did I miss mention of function name length in documentation? Or am I up too late?

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The engine keeps an look-up table of functions names/locations to help scripts run faster. This table is fixes size.

I see 2 needed improvements:

  1. Update docs to show the max function name.
  2. The engine should raise an error if the script contained a long function name. And also an error of there were too many functions!

Now that I think of this deeper, I think labels are also like functions and they use the same LuT. Update docs accordingly and report here.

We will take care of both this week. Thanks Mike.

3

Looks like there is a bug in the current firmware because function names length should be 12 characters, not 11.