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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "Numerical Recipes in C" is nonport
Message-ID: <8592@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 3 Oct 88 03:28:20 GMT
References: <703.2339B3CB@stjhmc.fidonet.org> <8569@smoke.ARPA> <16711@ism780c.isc.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <16711@ism780c.isc.com> marv@ism780.UUCP (Marvin Rubenstein) writes:
-In article <8569@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
->The proposed ANS for C does NOT repeat NOT prohibit implementations
->from supporting more than 6 monocase characters of significance in
->external identifiers.
-Absolutly true.  But it does prevent me form *using* external identifiers
-with more than 6 monocase characters if I want to be certain that my programs
-will be accepted by *all* conforming C compililation systems.

Wrong -- it is not the dpANS that prevents you from doing that,
but rather the way that some system environments happen to work.
The dpANS simply acknowledges this externally-imposed constraint.