Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!mike@RICE.ARPA From: mike@RICE.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: C and ANSI Standard Message-ID: <12598@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Aug-84 12:34:14 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12598 Posted: Sun Aug 19 12:34:14 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Aug-84 01:02:28 EDT Lines: 23 From: Mike CaplingerI want flexnames (arbitrary-length identifiers) everywhere you can use an identifier in C, particularly external names. I would settle for some large length, like 80. I WON'T settle for 6 or 8, and I don't care how many linkers will have to be rewritten to accomodate it. If this isn't done, then the standard will be a joke, and no piece of VAX 4.2 or Sun code will ever run anywhere else. Also, if anybody is contemplating making structure member names be unique (that is, struct foo { int a; }; struct bar { int a; }; being illegal) please stop them from doing so. Please don't let the ANSI standard be a mediocre version of V7 Unix C!