Surely 39 continuation lines is sufficient to do reasonable things and 31-character names are adequately descriptive. There is no reason to use a name like "iwbcns". How about isotherm_bound_cond_navier_stk or something similar? -------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't agree that 31 characters is enough, I try and choose a consistent naming convention for my subroutines, but whatever convention I choose eventually has to be abandoned because of the limitation. Your subroutine name only falls one character short of the limitation, what if one wanted several versions of this subroutine to exist? You'd have to change your convention and soon you'd be right back to "ibcns" (well maybe not but you get the point). In any case, it seems like a useless restriction, who cares how long a subroutine name is? Is there a technical reason why this number was chosen, or was it chosen arbitrarilly? _______________________________________________________________________ | Pete Bismuti | | Supercomputer Computations Research Institute | | Florida State University - Department of Mathematics | | [log in to unmask] (904)644-6263 | |_____________________________________________________________________| %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%