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Branden Robinson" Cc: Arsen =?utf-8?Q?Arsenovi=C4=87?= , Alejandro Colomar , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Paul Eggert , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org Subject: Re: the Linux man-pages as an educational tool In-Reply-To: <20260802231058.o7gud4bd7co2nbhv@illithid> References: <20260802000833.zpu27l7ibvrbouna@illithid> <87cxw1s58a.fsf@gmail.com> <87ik5sunm7.fsf@aarsen.me> <20260802231058.o7gud4bd7co2nbhv@illithid> Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:27:21 -0700 Message-ID: <875x1sp0h2.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "G. Branden Robinson" writes: > At 2026-08-03T01:08:32+0200, Arsen Arsenovi=C4=87 wrote: >> Alejandro Colomar writes: >> > Most programmers can live in the safe bubble of : those >> > functions always require a string as input, and always provide a >> > string as output. Plain and simple. It's difficult to write bugs >> > when using those. >> > >> > That's the rationale. >>=20 >> I do not follow. >>=20 >> C has no namespaces, let alone qualified imports. > > That's true. > >> The name of a header providing some function is thus inconsequential. > > Then why not have one official big header file for the whole standard? > > #include > > When you answer that to your own satisfaction, I suspect you'll have > little trouble following Alex's argument. > > ...which doesn't mean you'll agree with it. Plan 9 did this but with "#include " and it seems to have worked fine. I can't help but wonder of what happens in WG 14 rejects this controversial, as obvious by this thread, change. Will the man-pages changes be reverted? Or will we slowly watch them document personal preferences instead of existing standards? After seeing weekly threads about the prototype changes, I don't think it is an unreasonable concern. Collin