Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!rti-sel!dg_rtp!meissner From: meissner@dg_rtp.UUCP (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: ANSI C -- reserved words Message-ID: <776@dg_rtp.UUCP> Date: Fri, 26-Dec-86 10:45:55 EST Article-I.D.: dg_rtp.776 Posted: Fri Dec 26 10:45:55 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 27-Dec-86 03:41:52 EST References: <107@decvax.UUCP> Reply-To: meissner@dg_rtp.UUCP (Michael Meissner) Organization: Data General (Languages @ Research Triangle Park, NC.) Lines: 17 In article <107@decvax.UUCP> minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow) writes: > > Page 13, line 10ff (and many other places). The values defined in >should be written with a leading underscore, so they do not > occupy the name space reserved to user programs. The Standard should not > create new quasi-reserved words that occupy the name space reserved to > user programs. The reasons the names in limits.h are what they are, is we started with with 1984 /usr/group document as the base document for the library section. I believe the reason /usr/group chose the names they did was to accomidate preprocessors with 8 characters of significance. At the last meeting (which was also the P1003 meeting in the same hotel) it was brought up to P1003 (the offical successors to the /usr/group document). -- Michael Meissner, Data General ...mcnc!rti-sel!dg_rtp!meissner