Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!lll-tis!ames!umd5!cvl!elsie!ado
From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: $1 check for first person who convinces me main can't be reserved
Message-ID: <8025@elsie.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 88 14:45:49 GMT
References: <8016@elsie.UUCP> <8020@elsie.UUCP> <7352@brl-smoke.ARPA> <2801@haddock.ISC.COM>
Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
Lines: 12
Summary: nope

> > [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.

Nope.  Recent drafts say that application programmers aren't allowed to use
__* and _[A-Z]* identifiers, which are reserved to implementers; recent drafts
do not say that implementers may reserve *only* those identifiers.
-- 
ado@vax2.nlm.nih.gov		ADO, VAX, and NIH are Ampex and DEC trademarks