Re: Word For Today: “Uglification”

Anton Shepelev:

David Brown:
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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.)

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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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What stops that function name clashing with the single
function exported from other people's modules?