On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Malcolm Cohen wrote:
> Name mangling is not a panacea. You end up with increased cost,
> undocumented restrictions, or a cruddier environment. In particular,
> every tool that might mention the name to the user really needs to be
> changed... which includes most of my list! QED.
In addition, if you try to combine C++ with Fortran or another fine
language you find that the combination is less portable, because different
systems have different conventions for name-mangling.
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