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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Case distinction in var names
Message-ID: <475@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 13:54:56 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.475
Posted: Fri Nov  9 13:54:56 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Nov-84 06:45:57 EST
References: <4044@decwrl.UUCP> <9500013@iuvax.UUCP> <6164@mcvax.UUCP> <217@turing.UUCP>
Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Organization: North Coast XENIX, Cleveland
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Summary: 

One other comment on the inadvisability of 6-character uppercase externs:

****************** ANSI COMMITTEE, PLEASE LISTEN ********************

So doing will make ``ANSI Standard C'' ***incompatible*** with Berkeley
(and other major, i.e. System V) C.  Which forms of C constitute the
vast majority of C programs, even in their non-Unix-specific programs.
Put that braindamage in C, and you lose all the benefits of having C.
Use something else instead; don't waste your time.

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