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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.

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