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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
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Reply-To: meissner@dg_rtp.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Organization: Data General (Languages @ Research Triangle Park, NC.)
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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).
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	Michael Meissner, Data General
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