And since you think this is important (and I agree), why on earth are
you trying to use >reservered names that will not benefit this portability which you seek? :P
Pre fixing the underscore character is a technique that was around before the language evolved. Generally I use lowercase variables to name the variables so I had not encountered the problem. (and I was coding before compilers were reliable like we know them today) The compilers that I had used I had not encountered this before. My main reason for using the underscore character is that unlike other keyboard characters the underscore character is instinctively read as a space, and hence the meaning of the variable does not change when the programmer reads it. ie int _mv ... mv(_mv) The language choose to partly give a most useful character and place it in the compilers hands which I do object to, as it is a very useful character for the above reason. However after this discussion I will add the underscore character to the end of a variable instead of the start, so thankyou everyone for contributing and clearing things up. I went and checked the pre-processed code and a macro substitution had ocurred. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
