Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site elsie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!elsie!ado From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: 6 letter variable names? Message-ID: <4020@elsie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 19:37:59 EDT Article-I.D.: elsie.4020 Posted: Tue Oct 9 19:37:59 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 07:31:54 EDT References: <12778@sri-arpa.UUCP> <2015@rochester.UUCP> Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD Lines: 13 rochester!ken-- > It should not be too hard to write a pre-processor that checks for > identifier clashes within the significance limit of the local compiler > and optionally maps clashes into unique names. If it's "not. . .too hard to write" then the thing for advocates of this approach to do is to write it. Best of skill dealing with "extern"s. -- Rochester may be a Jack Benny Productions trademark -- ..decvax!seismo!elsie!ado (301) 496-5688 DEC, VAX and Elsie are Digital Equipment and Borden trademarks