[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Long name competition

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From: Alain Pastor <apastor@...>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:14:33 +0100
Robert Purves wrote:
> 
> This is for Alain, who is busy with demos for Release 6, needs cheering up, and is known to take an interest in Apple's names for new routines and constants.
> Last year he posted to this list an amusing fantasy based on Apple's naming policy. But fact beats fiction...
> 
> The longest official Apple constant seems to be
> kFindFolderRedirectionFlagsUseGivenVRefNumAndDirIDAsRemoteUserFolderBit
> 
> It can be used with the FindFolder toolbox function.
> 
> To define in FB^3, we would write:
> _kFindFolderRedirectionFlagsUseGivenVRefNumAndDirIDAsRemoteUserFolderBit = 2
> a statement that barely fits in the default Editor page width.
> 
Thanks for the good laugh!
Now, I'm sure they're smoking crack at Apple...

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Alain

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