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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Appreciation for ANSI C committee (was Re: Bug in new K&R?)
Message-ID: <4085@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 19 May 88 01:26:56 GMT
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Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <176@proxftl.UUCP> bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>It is certainly the case that some of the things they [X3J11] are doing
>are really screwed up [e.g.] the reserved library names

Reserved library names are current practice.  ("Reserved" meaning that you
might be able to get away with redefining them, but it's not portable.)  You
can't blame X3J11 for that one.

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