Reserved names in ANSI C

[Robert Claeson]

In article <362 at mountn.dec.com> minow%thundr.dec at decwrl.dec.com (Martin Minow) writes:

>For example, on VMS, XXX$<anything> is explicitly reserved to VMS
>development (and a development group must reserve its private XXX header),
>while XXX_<anything> is explicitly reserved to user development.

>If, for example, ANSI reserves <letters> '__' <letters-or-digits> to
>application programs, I could write standard-conforming programs without
>worrying that version 2, 3, or whatever of the standard conflicted with
>my code.

Sure, that would be nice, but with 6 (or was it 8?) character external
identifiers, you won't have much luck in finding readable names...

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