Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!taumet!steve
From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: long identifiers
Keywords: identifiers
Message-ID: <487@taumet.com>
Date: 22 Oct 90 14:55:19 GMT
References: <15953@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser) writes:

!I like to use long descriptive identifier names, even for
!external functions. The standard does not guarantee that
!these will all be unique, due to the existence of nasty crufty
!old linkers that may not distinguish them. ...
!... am I correct in assuming that
!all of the problematic linkers are on old machines or mainframes
!that I am very unlikely to care about?

Yes, you are correct -- until your code gets ported to a system which
does not support long external names.  Your local Tarot reader will be
able to tell when or whether that will happen.
-- 

Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com