From: David V. Wallace
Subject: Re: CL standardization (identifiers'semantics and symbols)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1992 06:38:24 +0000
Message-ID: <GUMBY.92Feb26063824@Cygnus.COM>

Any language that allow name-binding at all will have this problem.

When you see the "C" fragment ``foo = malloc (bar)'' you can't know
which malloc you've got without checking the link command (and knowing
what libraries may live in which directories of the link path).