Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!gatech!mcnc!decvax!ima!haddock!karl From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: reserved names (was: Weird problem with C compiler under SCO) Message-ID: <14778@haddock.ima.isc.com> Date: 29 Sep 89 05:59:14 GMT References: <71@promark.UUCP> <14561@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <940@bbx.UUCP> <11157@smoke.BRL.MIL> <597@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <11181@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302 Lines: 13 In article <11181@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: >But it is not the intention that any follow-on C language standard usurp more >name space than we've already specifically set aside. I don't know if that was the intention, but I seriously doubt that it will really work that way. It's highly probable that C-2001 will reserve at least one identifier which is currently in the user's namespace, e.g. `hypot'. Btw, I'm annoyed that the entire `is*' class was reserved; that happens to be my pet namespace for boolean variables and functions. Guess I'll make do with `is_'. Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint