reserved identifiers
Arthur David Olson
ado at elsie.UUCP
Thu Mar 3 09:28:12 AEST 1988
> Conforming implementations are prohibited from usurping
> [non-Standard-specified] identifiers via any of the standard headers. . .
It's true that implementations can't put non-Standard-specified identifiers
in the standard headers. But implementations aren't required to put identifiers
in headers to reserve them. The Standard itself makes this clear, at least if
I read it aright--selected identifiers beginning with is, to, and str are
reserved even if they don't appear in headers.
Which is why I'd still like to see something such as
Only external identifiers and macro names described in the
Standard as reserved shall be reserved.
in Section 4.1.2.
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