Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!ism780c!news From: news@ism780c.isc.com (News system) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "Numerical Recipes in C" is nonport Message-ID: <16711@ism780c.isc.com> Date: 26 Sep 88 23:59:03 GMT References: <703.2339B3CB@stjhmc.fidonet.org> <8569@smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: marv@ism780.UUCP (Marvin Rubenstein) Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA Lines: 10 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