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From: philipl@azure.UUCP (Philip Lantz)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: mechanism for resolving C and OS names
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Date: Sat, 22-Dec-84 23:01:52 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 22 23:01:52 1984
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A point that no one has mentioned yet (maybe because it is so obvious?)
is that adding a mechanism to C to give an identifier an equivalent
external name would resolve the problem we've been discussing for
months about the length of external identifiers.

Philip Lantz
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