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
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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'.)