Case distinction in var names

[Henry Spencer]

> One other comment on the inadvisability of 6-character uppercase externs:
> ...
> So doing will make ``ANSI Standard C'' ***incompatible*** with Berkeley
> (and other major, i.e. System V) C.  Which forms of C constitute the
> vast majority of C programs, even in their non-Unix-specific programs.

How quickly some of us forget the bad old days...  The vast majority
of C programs were written before *anybody* implemented arbitrary-length
names.  Most C programs date from environments with either a 7-character
limit or a 6-character limit (Unix and non-Unix environments respectively).
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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