Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site azure.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!tektronix!teklds!azure!philipl From: philipl@azure.UUCP (Philip Lantz) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: mechanism for resolving C and OS names Message-ID: <36@azure.UUCP> Date: Sat, 22-Dec-84 23:01:52 EST Article-I.D.: azure.36 Posted: Sat Dec 22 23:01:52 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 24-Dec-84 03:17:04 EST References: <273@desint.UUCP> <20980036@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 7 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 tekmdp!philipl