Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!necntc!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: $1 check for first person who convinces me main can't be reserved
Message-ID: <2801@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 88 17:42:21 GMT
References: <8016@elsie.UUCP> <8020@elsie.UUCP> <7352@brl-smoke.ARPA> <8022@elsie.UUCP> <7365@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <7365@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>[Nonstandard keywords] should be constrained to start with an underscore, at
>the very least.

I believe that to avoid colliding with the user's local variables, keywords
(like machine-specific #defines) must begin with a double underscore or an
underscore followed by an uppercase letter.  I thought one of the more recent
Drafts covered this issue.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint