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by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id HAA12956
for icon-group-addresses; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 07:41:54 -0700 (MST)
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From: gep2@terabites.com
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 23:08:37 -0500
Subject: Re: When Do You Keep A Quirk?
To: "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok@hermes.otago.ac.nz>,
icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
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Status: RO
The fact, as Richard points out, that Unix systems aren't even consistent within
themselves gives even one more reason to not worry about trying to recreate the
mythical "standard" basename()'s routine's anachronistic behavior.
His suggestions for new routines (which would hopefully be even more useful and
practical) sound fine, and I'm sure would be appreciated by many programmers.
The idea, though, that we have to retire the generic function name "basename"
for all time still strikes me as being pretty ridiculous.
Again, don't people understand that a lot of the routines in IPL are there
principally AS EXAMPLES!!!???
Gordon Peterson
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