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
prev parent 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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