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- From: pyramid!decwrl!qubix!wjvax!brett
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 86 11:03:18 pdt
- Organization: Watkins-Johnson Co., San Jose, Calif.
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- In article <6040@ut-sally.UUCP> Hentry Spencer writes:
- >From: pyramid!utzoo!henry (Henry Spencer)
- >Date: Fri, 17 Oct 86 20:18:05 CDT
- >
- >Apart from my overall objections to the concept of job control, there is
- >one thing seriously wrong with the P1003 job control proposal as posted:
- >it assumes that function names are distinct in at least the first 8
- >characters, as witness "setpgrp" vs. "setpgrp2" and "getpgrp" vs. "getpgrp2".
- >Note that an X3J11-conforming C implementation need distinguish only the
- >first 6 characters. I would suggest revised names for the new primitives,
- >perhaps "setjpgrp" and "getjpgrp", with implementations which distinguish
- >8 or more characters providing "setpgrp2" and "getpgrp2" names as well for
- >maximum compatibility with existing mistakes.
-
- Let's not force all variables to be distinct in the first 6 chars. The
- proper fix is to force a conforming C compiler to be more discriminating.
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- Brett Galloway
- {pesnta,twg,ios,qubix,turtlevax,tymix,vecpyr,certes,isi}!wjvax!brett
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