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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Naming
Message-ID: <12273@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 2 Mar 90 21:10:09 GMT
References: <MCDANIEL.90Feb20172440@orenda.amara.uucp> <1990Feb23.184656.3110@siia.mv.com> <16021@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1990Feb28.221425.6430@siia.mv.com> <1990Mar2.172503.1567@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
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In article <1990Mar2.172503.1567@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>That's what Karl meant:  the all-bets-are-off nature of the situation
>has not changed, but the fact is now documented.

To be fair, it should be noted that the absence of any clear statement
about the validity of supplanting library functions with one's own made
it uncertain whether it was supposed to be allowed or not.  Now that
there is clear license for the implementation to do things that interfere
with such usage, there is no longer any question about the validity of
the practice.  That's the sort of thing a standard is supposed to achieve.