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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

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