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List:       spamassassin-devel
Subject:    Re: Local rules prefix
From:       John Hardin <jhardin () impsec ! org>
Date:       2020-01-16 23:34:55
Message-ID: alpine.LNX.2.21.2001161534100.26078 () athena ! impsec ! org
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2020, RW wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:47:32 -0500
> Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
>
>> I'm fine with any PMC member who wants to create a wiki for this and
>> add code to the masscheck/qa to enforce that the stock rules won't
>> use some prefix.  I suggest LOCAL and __LOCAL so it's 100% clear.
>
> The reason why I suggested L is that it's terse. The idea was to avoid
> collisions without having to resort to long prefixes.

And there are length limits, at least by convention.

A useful compromise might be LCL_ and __LCL_

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