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On 06 Aug 2001, George Foot <gfoot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> e.g. for RSXNTDJ we used to define all API variables to be
> pointers, e.g.
>
> #define key (*key)
>
> but this broke things like the DIALOG struct which also have a
> `key' member, and function prototypes with `key' parameters.
Can you remember if there are a lot of these?
As for DIALOG.key, would changing that to something else be really
bad? Probably few people (if any) reference that anyway.
On the whole, I think the Mass Renaming is a good idea.
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