6 character external identifiers

[chris at umcp-cs.UUCP]

*	From: stevens at inuxh.UUCP

	Okay.  But what if ReplaceString and ReplaceChar are to be placed
	in a library?  How do you guarantee that your special program will
	generate _1ReplaceString for ReplaceString, and _2ReplaceChar for
	ReplaceChar, in any program that tries to use these routines
	(e.g., in a program that includes a function called ReplaceNode)? 

Well, it depends.  If the library is part of a package including other
programs, then no problem; I already need to remember symbols across
invocations (well, I don't *have* to but it isn't hard anyway) so there's
simply a file of established translations someplace.  If this is a library
that is being submitted for others to use, then you're out of luck; you
just have to come up with shorter names.
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