Re: Reserved names in ANSI C

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From: Norman Diamond
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1989 02:22

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In article <1989Jun21.090428.9636@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:

>	is[a-z].*       externals, ctype.h

Geez.  Last time I wrote a C program, guess how I named all my boolean
predicates.  There's a lesson here:  on those rare occasions when Unix
provides an example of good style, don't you dare learn from it.

(Partially thanks to Global Engineering Documents, who refused to sell
a public review copy of the draft standard.)

>Can you say "name space pollution"?

Yup.  Maybe, in order to standardize existing practice, no user-defined
identifiers may start with an alphabetic.  They must ALL start with an
underscore followed by a lower-case letter.

--
Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.jp@relay.cs.net)
 The above opinions are claimed by your machine's init process (pid 1), after
 being disowned and orphaned.  However, if you see this at Waterloo, Stanford,
 or Anterior, then their administrators must have approved of these opinions.

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