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o Anti-reserving some identifiers for use by programmersPhilipp Klaus Krause

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From: pkk...@spth.de (Philipp Klaus Krause)
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Subject: Anti-reserving some identifiers for use by programmers
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 11:12:02 +0200
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 by: Philipp Klaus Krause - Fri, 3 Sep 2021 09:12 UTC

More and more identifiers are being reserved by the. C23 makes a big
step in that direction with the large number (AFAIK more than 1700) of
new floating-point functions introduced.

Maybe it is time to anti-reserve some identifiers, so programmers can
rely on them not being taken away in future standards:

http://www.colecovision.eu/stuff/proposal-usr.html

Philipp

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