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From: "Sam Hulick" <shulick@guava.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Inform: There is no 512 object limit
Message-ID: <1995Sep12.124240.5842@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Vallen Software
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 12:42:33 -0500
Lines: 33


Someone said earlier that Inform limits programmers to 512 objects.  This
is clearly false, in a way.  It IS a limit, but it is expandable:

  inform +library $MAX_OBJECTS=700 test.inf

Graham is a smart guy... smart people don't put silly limits on
compilers unless they're expandable by the user.

Unix Inform 5.5 (v1502/a)
1:###########################################################line 509:
Fatal err
or: The memory setting MAX_OBJECTS (which is 512 at present) has been
exceeded.
 Try running Inform again with $MAX_OBJECTS=<some-larger-nu
(the UNIX version is kinda weird.. it doesn't finish printing that last
line for some reason)

Now watch:  inform +lib $MAX_OBJECTS=700 test.inf

Unix Inform 5.5 (v1502/a)
1:##############################################################
2:##############################################################

When I read about the 512 object limit, I knew it had to be wrong.  Even
amateur compiler-writers don't put arbitrary limits like that on their
compilers.

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