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- From: Julian F. Reschke <julian@GINA.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Re: libraries
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 13:22:45 MET DST
- In-Reply-To: <9301201148.AA11684@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>; from "Nicholas S Castellano" at Jan 20, 93 6:48 am
-
- > I don't see what's so bad about having compatibility files like a
- > tos.h that just includes osbind.h. So you might have to wait an extra
- > half a second, but if you're in that much of a rush you should
- > probably be using a different computer :-)
-
- Perhaps it's the pedantic side of me :-) BTW: exactly this is the
- reason why I normally use PureC (it's faster by a factor of 5 and still
- creates faster executables).
-
- > I'm all for cleaning up the ANSI namespace in the current headers, and
- > making those the "standard", with a compatibility header you can
- > include to get all the old names by #defines (preferably NOT by having
- > duplicate files with different names for the same things, as then
- > there will be two places to maintain the same stuff.)
-
- I don't think that there's an 'ANSI' namespace for 'typedefs'. That's why I
- think that Atari's original names (like 'DTA' should be used).
-
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