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Subject: Re: "Numerical Recipes in C" is nonport
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Date: 26 Sep 88 23:59:03 GMT
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Reply-To: marv@ism780.UUCP (Marvin Rubenstein)
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In article <8569@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes:
>The proposed ANS for C does NOT repeat NOT prohibit implementations
>from supporting more than 6 monocase characters of significance in
>external identifiers.
>
Absolutly true.  But it does prevent me form *using* external identifiers
with more than 6 monocase characters if I want to be certain that my programs
will be accepted by *all* conforming C compililation systems.

   Marv Rubinstein