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Re: standard include files

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On 02/23/12 01:38 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    There was a discussion once about why people do not simply
>    include all possible standard headers, so that they do not
>    have to be so careful when choosing the needed ones.
>
>    Someone said that not including all possible standard
>    headers does reduce the possibility of standard names
>    defined in them colliding with user names. (Also including
>    future C versions, where a name might be defined by the
>    standard that is not defined now.)
>
>    But aren't all standard identifiers reserved anyway,
>    independently of whether the corresponding header is
>    included or not?

They may be reserved, but that reservation isn't enforced.

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Ian Collins

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