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Allow variable names to have underscores (_) and more than 10 characters.

It's fine when you have a few variables like MONEY or HEALTH. But if you have many flags associated with each location or character you end up with unreadable names like OOBGR1 instead of ONCE_BIG_GLADE_RAINY_DAY (this is a real example). Using unreadable global names usually causes bugs. No decent scripting language has such ridiculous naming restrictions. And it'll take only a few minutes to fix.

More examples of useful names that you can't use (not from a particular story): JAKE_HEALTH, JAKE_MOOD, JAKE_LOCATION, JAKE_PRANKED_BY_BOB, JAKE_PRANKED_BY_HERO, JAKE_SPELLS_LEFT, MARGARETH_HEALTH, etc.

It will benefit writers (including me), who will be able to make better scripts. Consequently, it will benefits readers, who will get more good stuff.

I'm pretty sure this has been asked or atleast discussed somewhere before, as I remember asking alex_p (a site creator and the only one who can do this) why there was such a low limit of 10 characters for variable names. That was like months ago, maybe a year ago. So it depends on whether he has the will and time to do it. All we can do is pray.

Even if it has been asked before, it's still a good idea to post it, since a lot of members here are against thread necroing.

It's no use having extra posts here that have to accepted or rejected. It's better to have one post. Necroing is fine in this forum.

It doesn't.