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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C Style
Message-ID: <9361@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 13 Jan 89 07:46:08 GMT
References: <2688@ficc.uu.net> <9336@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2700@ficc.uu.net> <9345@smoke.BRL.MIL> <918@philmds.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <918@philmds.UUCP> leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
>An argument against this is that if the user of the header does NOT
>need to know this, it could possibly #define the same symbol (for
>whatever reason). This would result in the header not being included
>properly.

I assumed that the available name space had already been divided
among "packages" using some general guideline, such as package
prefixes (explained in a previous posting).  You need to take
care of this anyway.  It is easier to cooperate with general
name space partitioning guidelines than to remember specific
symbols.