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From: boyd.roberts@ca-...
Subject: Réf. : Re: [9fans] Installing the updates
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 11:46:16 +0200




"Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl...> wrote:



    Since the C standard definitely requires idempotency for the
    standard headers (except <assert.h>), at least the APE headers
    ought to conform, to ease the burden of importing non-native code.

The ANSI brigade strike again; idempotence of headers.
Shouldn't 'to ease the burden of importing non-native code'
be re-written as 'to ease the burden of importing badly written code'?

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Boyd Roberts                       boyd.roberts@ca-...

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