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But there are lots of places where these identifiers aren't keywords, and it is valid code (try writing a compliant stdlib without using them).

The problem is that too many people assume that their usage of C is the same as everyone elses. I don't want to be writing a system library and fighting my compiler everytime I put something in the symbol table that isn't in the C spec.



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