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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: /usr/include/ftpio.h is not C++ safe
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On Tue, 6 May 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > > I hate __P() and will fight a guerilla war against it if I have to.
> > 
> > So do I.  I'd do it in straight ANSI first and then if there's an uproar
> > of people who can provide details of their K&R applications that require
> > __P() then you can begrudgingly add it later.
> 
> Cool.  You guys sound like Sun Microsystems statistically adressing
> sev 1 bugs.

On the contrary, a consistent interface exclusively tailored for new code
reduces the spec and this increases the chances of delivering bug free
code for the class of new apps that would use the lib.

Regards,


Mike Hancock