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		adestefan on April 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C Finally Gets A New Standard The Cxx committees try really had to make everything backwards compatible. This includes trying to not step on existing namespaces. These names, along with mtx, etc., are just going overboard though.

cpeterso on April 10, 2012 [–]

If the C committees want to avoid namespace collisions, why not use _Keyword style names like _Mutex_init and _Mutex_destroy?

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