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This just seems odd to me, most other things are lower case.
Is there some historical reason?
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Most likely FILE was originally a macro, and by convention macros have all-caps names. This would have been before typedef was introduced to the C language.
There are multiple reasons why everything may become capitalized in Microsoft Word: The Caps Lock button on the keyboard is turned on. One of the Shift keys on the keyboard has physically jammed. A font type has been selected that only has upper case letters.
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Capitalize the first letter of each word in a file name. This is called “CamelCase.” It is an efficient way to differentiate words but it can be harder to read. If the file name contains a capitalized acronym, it should appear in capitals and the first letter of the following word should also be capitalized.
It's a macro. Macros have historically had all caps in C. Unfortunately recent trends appear to have broken that fact.
Small history lesson: Also, FILE was an io buffer abstraction in UNIX v7 libc stdio. A FILE doesn't necessarily represent a physical file, just something that can do block IO. Source:
http://www.bsdlover.cn/study/UnixTree/V7/usr/include/stdio.h.html
"file" was already defined by the kernel as well:
http://www.bsdlover.cn/study/UnixTree/V7/usr/include/sys/file.h.html
As someone else said here it's probably a typedef now, but I don't think C had typedefs back in '79 as it only just had structs. Then again I wasn't born then so... :)
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