From: utzoo!henry Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: Re: Naming Conventions for System Libraries Article-I.D.: utzoo.2488 Posted: Wed Sep 22 19:42:18 1982 Received: Wed Sep 22 19:42:18 1982 There are two possible problems with using '$' as a character in identifiers to mark them as "system" names. The first is that it is likely to foul up things like yacc, which process C text looking for $ as a marker for special hooks into their innards. The second, decidedly more serious problem, is that... it's not C, folks. No matter what Berkeley says. It's neither standard nor portable. I can't say I'm too delighted with a lot of the other things Berkeley has done, but dammit, they should have kept their hands off the C language! As Dennis Ritchie has been heard to say, "we *had* a standard...". Henry Spencer U of Toronto