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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Cc: GIT Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: The MIT error
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:50:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <435E623B.20303@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <435E3892.4020002@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> No they don't. "begin with either is or to and a lowercase letter", 
> meaning (is|to)[a-z].*, just as Morten wrote. is_.* doesn't fall into 
> this category. The underscore exemption is so that users can write their 
> own is_file(), is_whatever() str_replace() and such. Some thought has 
> gone into the standard.
> 

Also, note that we don't include <ctype.h>, and the reasons to stay out 
of its namespace are:

a. potential for confusion (different semantics), and
b. broken system headers.

	-hpa

      reply	other threads:[~2005-10-25 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-24 18:57 The MIT error Morten Welinder
2005-10-25 13:40 ` Horst von Brand
2005-10-25 13:52   ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-10-25 16:50     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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