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* Réf. : Re: [9fans] Installing the updates
@ 2000-08-01  9:46 boyd.roberts
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From: boyd.roberts @ 2000-08-01  9:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
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"Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl.army.mil> 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'?

--
Boyd Roberts                       boyd.roberts@ca-indosuez.com

See, an ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations.
A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.

     -- Bud, Repo Man




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