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[Tim Maroney]

Re the "new" idea for resolving lexical mismatches between an OS and C by
introducing some construct such as

OSid text_limit "text$space$top";

(making the compiler put out the identifier "text$space$top" [illegal in C]
in place of all ocurrences of "text_limit"), I am very much in favor of this
idea.  I would like to point out, though, that I suggested this last Spring
on this very newsgroup and was met by thundering silence.  It is not a "new"
idea at all.
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Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
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Liber AL, II:9.