> All in all I think intrinsic functions should be limited, especially when
> common names are chosen.  It's dangerous to have a lot of reserved names in
> a namespace the user can also create symbols in.
The way to get arround that is to give the intrinsic functions names in 
the compiler private namespace (__ prefix in c) and then provide headers 
with the compiler that use #define to map user visible names to the 
internal names. Gcc does this for varargs support for example.

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