From: utzoo!watmath!idallen Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: Naming Conventions for System Libraries Article-I.D.: watmath.3528 Posted: Wed Sep 22 15:14:11 1982 Received: Wed Sep 22 23:25:50 1982 References: sri-unix.3384 Having to check every one of my own function names against an existing library namelist only works for the current version of the library. If the system library changes, it might well change to use some function or external name that I use in my program. A naming convention is the only way to avoid *future* naming conflicts.