Can a field name exceed 32 characters

Well It just happened on the go. I know the name of a field cant be bigger that 32 characters in lenght. I got a bit curious to see if I can break it. But the designer did not allow me to do it.

So as always 2 over come this I had my step2 - the Lotus Script.
I just created a document Item whose name is 52 characters in length. And yes it can exceed. But I havent tested its limits yet. Following are screen shots that would best describe what I am speaking about

I hope we can over come the designer limitation as well using DXL. Hope this is interesting and useful :)