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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:35:50 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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Subject: Re: The naming of at()s is a difficult matter
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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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