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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Reserved names in ANSI C
Summary: 6 character externals...
Message-ID: <745@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 28 Jun 89 09:28:33 GMT
References: <GEOFF.89Jun11231924@onyx.cs.warwick.ac.uk> <13680@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1598@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <875@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <316@mountn.dec.com> <884@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <321@mountn.dec.com> <919@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <362@mountn.dec.com>
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In article <362@mountn.dec.com> minow%thundr.dec@decwrl.dec.com (Martin Minow) writes:

>For example, on VMS, XXX$<anything> is explicitly reserved to VMS
>development (and a development group must reserve its private XXX header),
>while XXX_<anything> is explicitly reserved to user development.

>If, for example, ANSI reserves <letters> '__' <letters-or-digits> to
>application programs, I could write standard-conforming programs without
>worrying that version 2, 3, or whatever of the standard conflicted with
>my code.

Sure, that would be nice, but with 6 (or was it 8?) character external
identifiers, you won't have much luck in finding readable names...

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