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From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Token pasting in #include directive
Message-ID: <970@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 27 Nov 89 22:13:50 GMT
References: <11160@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> <1989Nov22.222413.3874@utzoo.uucp> <18672@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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In article <18672@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, afscian@violet.waterloo.edu (Anthony Scian) writes:
> What about the library prototypes that are coded "int foo( int x, int y )"
> when they should be "int foo( int __x, int __y )"?

Eh?  Why is the second any more correct than the first?  Since
the argument names in a prototype only have prototype scope, they
can't conflict with any other names in the program and therefor
do not need leading underscores.
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