__* in installed headers
Mark Kettenis
kettenis@phys.uva.nl
Mon Aug 10 03:05:00 GMT 1998
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 04:01:03 -0400
From: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
The whole point is not about the problems we can imagine, but limiting the
kinds of problems we will never imagine but will still be possible.
I tend to agree with Roland.
We should put a warning in the documentation about the __-prefixed
names being for internal use only. Probably something in the FAQ
too. People who do not read the documentation deserve to get
punished. I'm not really afraid that a lot of people will actually
use the __-prefixed names.
Mark
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