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Subject: Re: [9fans] same functions everywhere
From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@mightycheese.com>
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:33:59 -0700
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> An intermediate way would be to add another library with
> common tools like those ones. But maybe we end up with too many
> libraries then...

This doesn't really address the objection unless you also require that
other libraries not use this one, which seems bizarre.

The argument I think carries the day is that error handling is an
application-specific issue, not a library issue.  I have written emalloc
several times but each application tends to do something different
in the error case.  That is the real point.

-rob