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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Toy code for currency handling
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herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com writes:
> On Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 7:24:41 AM UTC-8, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
[...]
>> The advice was simple: for portability use lower case for external names
>> and keep them distinct in the first 6 characters.
>
> It is better to use some of the first and last characters, to allow
> for names with trailing count value.  myfunction0, myfunction1, ...

Perhaps it would have been, but C90 guaranteed only 6 significant
initial characters in an external identifier.

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