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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Word For Today: =?UTF-8?B?4oCcVWdsaWZpY2F0aW9u4oCd?=
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 23:13:55 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 08:03:50 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> That’s true, but AFAICT it’s exactly what Lawrence is complaining about:
> there’s nothing in the language spec to help those thousand other
> libraries avoid name clashes.

My specific complaint was about temporary names being used internal to 
library macros. It’s a problem that is essentially impossible to solve 
with string-based macro processors.