Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:13:45 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Ian Miller <itmiller AT dera DOT gov DOT uk>
cc:	DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>,
	Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be>
Subject:	Re: Style Sheet
In-Reply-To:	<34588079.3C79AA54@dera.gov.uk>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.971030150807.3298A-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Ian Miller wrote:

>     Avoid polluting the ANSI and POSIX namespaces.
>     Example of bad practice?

One example is defining external funcions whose names aren't mentioned in 
ANSI/POSIX standards, and which don't begin with an underscore, like so:

	int my_fancy_function ();

Another example is calling non-POSIX functions whose names don't begin 
with an underscore, from POSIX/ANSI functions.  For example, `stat' should 
NOT call `fnsplit'.  (In ANSI functions, avoid non-ANSI functions as 
well: `fopen' should NOT call `stat'.)

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