[Gllug] Office software -> c/c++ debate

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On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Stig Brautaset stated:
> (It is a bit of a low blow, I admit that; still I don't think it is an
> unreasonable assumption that people programming in C use `new' and
> `delete' as variable names.)

More common is people relying upon the separateness of the struct-tag
and variable namespaces in C. It's horrible style, but people really do
do things like

struct trad trad_s;
struct trad *trad = trad_s;

(why? *DON'T ASK*.)

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