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[Brandon Allbery the tame hacker on the North Coast]

> Article <7332 at brl-tgr.ARPA>, from MLY.G.SHADES%MIT-OZ at MIT-MC.ARPA
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| 	it is a sound idea admittedly but it seems to me that all you
| are doing is the standard(?) practice of
| 
| #define this_is_a_very_long_name xyzzy
| int this_is_a_very_long_name;

Which works fine if the name happens to only contain characters legal
in C identifiers.  IBM 370 labels can contain $, #, and @.  The first
is allowed in SOME C implementations; the other two are allowed in no
C that I know of.  You can't #define

#define ibm_370_ext_func SYS#FOO$

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