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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Case distinction in var names
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Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 15:05:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 13 15:05:16 1984
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> One other comment on the inadvisability of 6-character uppercase externs:
> ...
> 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.

How quickly some of us forget the bad old days...  The vast majority
of C programs were written before *anybody* implemented arbitrary-length
names.  Most C programs date from environments with either a 7-character
limit or a 6-character limit (Unix and non-Unix environments respectively).
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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