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From: Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com>
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Subject: Re: Word For Today: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CUglification=E2=80=9D?=
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:09:04 +0300
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bart:
> Anton Shepelev:
> > David Brown:
> >
> > > The limited support for avoiding name clashes in C
> > > (user-level C, outside of the implementation
> > > internals) is certainly something that he (or others)
> > > /could/ complain about.  It is a well-known issue, and
> > > it's a shame that the C standards committee have never
> > > dealt with it.  I don't see why the language could not
> > > adopt a simple "namespace" solution that would hugely
> > > simplify avoiding identifier clashes.  (It wouldn't
> > > help for macros, but we have inline functions to
> > > handle many cases.)
> >
> > My hypothetical solution is to have a single function
> > returning a struct with pointers to all the public
> > functions of a module.
>
> What stops that function name clashing with the single
> function exported from other people's modules?

A much lower probability.

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