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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Tue,  5 Aug 2008 22:51:02 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] float.h
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On Aug 5, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Russ Cox wrote:

>> Hello. Is there an alternative to the macros in this header? My
>> program uses some of them (DBL_MIN, DBL_MAX, DBL_EPSILON), and
>> including <ape/float.h> yields name clashes. Thanks.
>
> Why not change your program not to use
> standard names for its own purposes?
>
> Russ
>
>

In this case, "its own purposes" == "allowing the user to choose that
as a parameter to an expression."