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From: ica2ph@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann)
Subject: Re: naming convention discussion
Date: 1997/05/20
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> Peter Herman said

> I am reluctant to allow trailing underscores in identifiers:
> They open several cans of worms.

Robert Dewar (dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu) wrote:
> I don't understand what cans of worms would be opened by this feature ...

Apart from the standard software as used by the majority, there happens to 
exist everywhere(IMHO!) software doing some work of editors, browsers, linkers,
maintenance tools, program development environments, little chunks of
software, small tools, home brewn examination programs, etc.
for which the "normal" appearance of a variable is just accepted 
with a minimum of effort as a token/name_nail/ etc.

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