C Style

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Fri Jan 13 17:46:08 AEST 1989


In article <918 at philmds.UUCP> leo at philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
>An argument against this is that if the user of the header does NOT
>need to know this, it could possibly #define the same symbol (for
>whatever reason). This would result in the header not being included
>properly.

I assumed that the available name space had already been divided
among "packages" using some general guideline, such as package
prefixes (explained in a previous posting).  You need to take
care of this anyway.  It is easier to cooperate with general
name space partitioning guidelines than to remember specific
symbols.



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