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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 10:15:08 -0800 (PST)
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To: des@flood.ping.uio.no
Subject: Re: hiding symbols
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In article <xzpg1afi83q.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>,
Dag-Erling Smorgrav  <des@flood.ping.uio.no> wrote:
> Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
> > Don't hide symbols.  It breaks debugging.  Just give them a name in
> > the implementation namespace.
> 
> That is, throw in an underscore in front?
> 
> (Hmm, where are those namespaces defined in the standard? The only
> reference I can find in the index is to section 6.1.2.3 which is about
> labels, structure tags, structure members and other identifiers having
> separate namespaces)

My copy is a pre-release draft, but it's section 4.1.2.1 there.
Look in the index under "reserved identifiers" and you'll probably
find it.

John
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