From owner-cvs-all Sat May 1 18:55:49 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3386C14CA3; Sat, 1 May 1999 18:55:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id LAA12226; Sun, 2 May 1999 11:24:53 +0930 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA03278; Sun, 2 May 1999 11:25:28 +0930 Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 11:25:28 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Bruce Evans 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 In-Reply-To: <199905012209.IAA17220@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 ----- The Feynman problem-solving algorithm: 1. Write down the problem 2. Think real hard 3. Write down the solution To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message