Named Parameters

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sat May 5 14:08:56 EDT 2012


Dar Scott wrote:
> On May 5, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> It may be that the general limit on single-line handling applies to script lines, which would be uint2.  But that would be a lot of typing for a single line anyway, and likely so unreadable that it would explain why no one's ever reported that as a problem.
>
> Perhaps that might come up in computed scripts.
>
> However, in the editor one is limited by the field limits--64K characters and 32K pixels per line, I believe.  The latter might make a practical limit of (just guessing) 5,000 characters per line.

FWIW, I believe the pixel limit is specific to the API's they're using 
on OS X, and will not affect other platforms.

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