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> I think we had the right idea the first time this came up:  Change 
> everything to a different letter.  The letter "k" would have been a good 
> choice if not for "strtok".  There are still a few other letters free.  I 
> did a quick review and came up with the following, tentative, list:
> 
>     b  m  v  w  y
> 
> Of these, I like "m" the best, [...]

> Does anyone have a different favorite, or know of a reason why it can't 
> be "m"?  We'll want to be extra sure we get it right on our third try, 
> right?  :^)

I've been doing some more checking and found that the GNU version of libc 
("glibc") supports a "%m" format in printf.  Does that mean we're down to 
four letters (b, v, w, or y)?  I've checked that glibc at least doesn't 
use any of these four.  Still, I wonder where we're going to draw the 
line if we find out that every letter is in use by somebody for 
something, as seems likely.

Personally, I'd be happy to jump into the morass and go back to "q", but 
I'm assuming that's a minority opinion.

    - John Hauser