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From: meissner@dg-rtp.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MAJOR ANSI C FLAW (my opinion, of course)
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Date: Sun, 11-Oct-87 20:07:08 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 11 20:07:08 1987
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In article <11480008@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> swh@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold) writes:
| Re: 6-character external names
| 
| If using names of externals with only the first 6 characters being
| recognized, is too restrictive in your choice of "meaningful" names, 
| why not use the #define technique.  For example:
| 
| #define    longandverbose  simple
| 
| Then everyone can have their cakes and eat them.

And then you run the risk of having the preprocessor run out of memory.  One
way that people haven't mentioned is to group all of the external variables
(and maybe pointers to functions) within a structure.  That way, you group
things together, and you have less clutter in the external name space.
-- 
Michael Meissner, Data General.		Uucp: ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!meissner
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