>So are spaces in filenames and directories, but it's still a PITA. Legal yes, but advicable? No way. At least that's my experience from roughly 20 years with xBase.
We're using long field names in our tables. The only problem we had so far was in SDT when we were trying to remove one column with the long name, where 10 first characters matched another fields name.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
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