Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast)) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: $ in identifiers -- poll Message-ID: <526@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Jan-85 18:53:07 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.526 Posted: Tue Jan 1 18:53:07 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Jan-85 04:08:13 EST References: <273@desint.UUCP> <20980036@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> <659@druxp.UUCP> <10496@watmath.UUCP> Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast)) Organization: The North Coast Xenix System, Cleveland Lines: 14 Summary: How about this construct: extern sys_read() : "SYS$READ"; About the only possible clash is with bitfields, and this wouldn't be useful where bitfield declarations are legal (i.e. inside structures). It also wouldn't eat up the `entry' keyword. --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa (..ncoast!tdi1!bsa business) 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio 44131 (216) 524-1416 Who said you had to be (a) a poor programmer or (b) a security hazard to be a hacker?