"Numerical Recipes in C" is nonport

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Tue Sep 27 09:59:03 AEST 1988


In article <8569 at smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) 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



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