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Date:      Sat, 4 Nov 1995 16:14:47 -0600
From:      rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth)
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman), hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hmmmm!  `resvport' keyword not documented *anywhere*?
Message-ID:  <v0213050eacc1949ec164@[199.183.109.242]>

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Terry Lambert wrote:
>> This begs the question of "why have undocumented word options at all?".

Garrett A. Wollman responded:
> For backward compatibility.

Compatibility is a noble reason to have word options.

However, IMHO, it does not justify undocumented options.

On this subject, I adopt the government policy.
"If it's in there, it has to be listed on the label"

An undocumented "feature" is a coding error.

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Richard Wackerbarth
rkw@dataplex.net





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