PSARC/2008/309 - expunge synonyms.h

[Joseph Kowalski]

Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> I seem to recall squashing a request to do that many years ago (with 
> great relish).
> Maybe twice.
Speaking of "squashing", there have been multiple attempts to publicly 
expose these
symbols.  The rationale is that third party libraries could use the same 
trick - by
binding to _read() rather than read().  That "trick" has merit, but I 
don't think it ever
happened.

(Bart, I think you were a proponent of this.  Comments?)

- jek3