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- From: uunet!smoke.BRL.MIL!gwyn (Doug Gwyn )
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- In article <316@longway.TIC.COM> Ray Butterworth <uunet!watmath.waterloo.edu!rbutterworth> writes:
- >I don't understand why X3J11 didn't try to standardize these
- >names in some way, even if only as a note in the appendix
- >suggesting that this is the way to do it.
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- Every suggestion for doing this that we received or thought up had
- problems. The biggest problem is that there would need to be some
- central registry for the names, and X3J11 is not in a position to
- operate one. Frankly, I think we want to strongly encourage you to
- give up system-dependent hackery and program portably, for which
- the issue is moot.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 16, Number 16
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