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From: jack@vu44.UUCP (Jack Jansen)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: $ in identifiers -- poll
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Date: Tue, 25-Dec-84 17:09:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 25 17:09:52 1984
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If the idea to make a construct like
extern sys_read "SYS$READ" ();
cannot be implemented like this because of the conflict with
old-style initialization, why not use the "entry" keyword?
It is still a reserved word (well, according to my K&R, at least),
and I've never heard of an implementation using it.
Besides that,
extern sys_read entry "SYS$READ" ();
looks even more intellegible (to me).
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