Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 15:11:39 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> Cc: current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: TRUE and FALSE Message-ID: <9502222011.AA08273@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199502221534.HAA17757@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <199502221534.HAA17757@freefall.cdrom.com>
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<<On Wed, 22 Feb 1995 07:34:07 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> said: > These have always been traditionally defined in <stdio.h>, yet I see > that we don't do it there. Are these now in violation of POSIX namespace > or something? Should I be including something else to get them? No, they are in violation of ANSI namespace, and an idiotic idea in the first place. Think: what happens if someone decides to define enum bool { TRUE, FALSE }; ? (A somewhat less idiotic idea, but still bogus.) > And that seems a little silly (so is exporting the entire NFS tree into > /usr/include, while we're talking about silly, but that's another diatribe > entirely). Hello, Jordan? Wake up! wollman@khavrinen(11)$ ls -l /usr/include/nfs lrwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 8 Feb 21 15:03 /usr/include/nfs@ -> /sys/nfs wollman@khavrinen(12)$ ls -l /usr/include/sys lrwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 8 Feb 21 15:03 /usr/include/sys@ -> /sys/sys -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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