Joerg Schilling wrote:
Surely you're not suggesting that TOG's job is to rubber-stamp bad
Solaris decisions...
Are you interested in forcing Solaris to change all interfaces?
In this case, I think it would be entirely appropriate. It's hardly a
hardship to maintain the legacy names for backwards compatibility; since
those names are nonsensical it is unlikely they'll ever want to be
claimed, in which case they can be maintained indefinitely.
However, I would find it much, much worse if names that are *actively
misleading and confusing* to the programmer would be included in an
international standard and therefore forced upon the rest of the world
forever.
-hpa
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