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authorallen <allen@17b73243-c579-4c4c-a9d2-2d5706c11dac>2002-08-19 19:07:08 +0000
committerallen <allen@17b73243-c579-4c4c-a9d2-2d5706c11dac>2002-08-19 19:07:08 +0000
commite44938759e45f0c46eb8e314d7ead9921fe5e7d9 (patch)
tree510a55256439993cfdd01dfa39e0bf6e10796698 /doc/UsersGuide/ThornWriters.tex
parentf5444c27fa3abc5fd94a17ffbd64df7f776ba1ec (diff)
Document and check maximum length of a thorn name
Fixes Cactus/882 git-svn-id: http://svn.cactuscode.org/flesh/trunk@2970 17b73243-c579-4c4c-a9d2-2d5706c11dac
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@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ configuration files which are parsed at compile time and used to generate
glue code which encapsulates the external appearence of a thorn.
Thorn names must be (case independently) unique, must start with a letter,
-and can only contain
-letters, numbers or underscores.
+can only contain
+letters, numbers or underscores, and must contain 27 characters or less.
In addition, a thorn cannot have the name {\t doc}, this is reserved
for arrangement documentation. Arrangement names which start with a
`\#', or finish with `\~{}' or `.bak' will be ignored.