Hello, I just noticed this recommendation from <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Libraries.html>:
External symbols that are not documented entry points for the user should have names beginning with ‘_’. I think this is bad advice because both POSIX and glibc reserve names starting with an ‘_’. Quoth <https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Reserved-Names.html>: […] reserved names include all external identifiers (global functions and variables) that begin with an underscore (‘_’) and all identifiers regardless of use that begin with either two underscores or an underscore followed by a capital letter are reserved names. Thus I suggest removing this sentence and possibly proposing a different convention. Guile uses ‘scm_’ for public functions and ‘scm_i_’ for internal functions; some libraries use two underscores, as in ’lib__’. Thoughts? Ludo’.
