Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 11:25:28 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: dcs@newsguy.com, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang/nawk Makefile ports/lang/nawk/files md5ports/lang/nawk/patches patch-aa patch-ab patch-ac patch-adpatch-ae Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9905021120300.2386-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <199905012209.IAA17220@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Sun, 2 May 1999, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >> Mar 5, 1999:
> >> after hearing from yet another innocent victim, changed
> >> isnumber to is_number to avoid the problem caused by
> >> freeBSD gratuitously and incorrectly including the name
> >> isnumber in the standard header file ctype.h.
>
> s/innocent/guilty/ ...
>
> Declaring or defining isnumber() in ctype.h is perfectly ANSI C conformant.
> ANSI C reserves all names beginning with is[a-z].
I guess Brian Kernighan just doesn't like ANSI C, then :-)
Kris
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