At 01:21 PM 4/13/2001 +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) wrote on 12.04.01 in
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > At 12:16 AM 4/13/2001 +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) wrote on 11.04.01 in
> > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > >
> > > > *) All private routines have #defines to give them a _Perl_ prefix
> > > > *) All private data have #defines to give them a _PL_ prefix
> > >
> > >IIRC, ISO C says you cannot have /^_[A-Z_][A-Za-z_0-9]*$/. That's reserved
> > >for the standard.
> >
> > Yeah, well, we'll just have to write ANSI C instead.
>
>ANSI *is* ISO with regard to C.
I know--that was a rather feeble attempt at humor. Chalk it up to too
little coffee.
> > :-P More seriously, if
> > we want to be cautious we could double the underscore for private data
> > instead.
>
>I hope you don't think __P<something>, because the regex above does cover
>that, too.
No, not __Perl. Perl__.
Dan
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