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Date:      Mon, 05 May 1997 14:13:48 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        nadav@barcode.co.il, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /usr/include/ftpio.h is not C++ safe 
Message-ID:  <7632.862866828@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 May 1997 06:09:16 %2B1000." <199705052009.GAA09324@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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> >Don't pollute new code with the __P() gunge.  It just makes it harder
> >to read and there are no compilers we need to use which do not accept
> >full ANSI prototypes.
> 
> Headers in /usr/include should support K&R since they may be used with
> old code.

"May be" just isn't strong enough for this man, and I thought we
already went over all of this just a few weeks ago in core!  I
certainly do not intend on adding __P() garbage to any header file I'm
responsible for, that's for sure.

					Jordan



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