Maximum Method Name Length

Question

Does anyone happen to know what the maximum length of a method name is in your programming language of choice? I was going to make this a C# specific question, but I think i

Answer 1

I just did a test in C# Visual Studio 2010 (x64): made an identifier:

int a123456789a123...;

And repeated. At 512 characters, VS gives me the error "Identifier too long." 511 is fine though. (Checked character count in Word.)

Another example:

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