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Why is FILE all-caps as in FILE*?
Why is the standard library FILE type written uppercase ?
Is it because of its opaque nature ?
Thank you.
If you look at the naming convention used in C, upper case is typically used for preprocessor macros. My guess is that it originally was implemented as a macro expanding to the concrete type used by the library implementation.