Help wanted on avoiding name space pollution

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Fri Jun 3 05:24:15 AEST 1988


In article <8079 at elsie.UUCP> ado at elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>	But Section 4.1.2 and Section 4.1.13 of the Standard tell only
>	what identifiers are reserved; they do not say that the
>	described identifiers are the only identifiers that may be
>	reserved.

There wouldn't be much point in specifying what names are reserved
unless the remaining names were unreserved.  I think the committee
felt that that implication was clear enough.

I also fail to see how an implementation could qualify as conforming
if it usurped unreserved names.  It certainly could NOT "accept any
strictly conforming program" as required in section 1.7.



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