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