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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
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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