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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: encapsulating directory operations
Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 06:54:09 +0100
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On 24/05/2025 06:32, Tim Rentsch wrote:
> Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
> 
>> On 23/05/2025 13:43, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>>
>>> Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 20/05/2025 10:18, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> C90 will never be extended.
>>>>
>>>> And for that reason it will always be valuable.  Stability
>>>> has a value all its own.
>>>
>>> C99 is just as stable as C90, and has been for well over a
>>> decade.
>>
>> Sure, but it's a different stable.
>>
>> If it were the same stable, it would be C90.
>>
>> C99 isn't C90, therefore it isn't the same stable.
>>
>> If you tell me C99 is a rock, I will not doubt you.  But the C90 rock
>> it most certainly isn't.
> 
> Now you're being silly.

No, sir. If you want to play that game, you can play it with 
yourself. I know that you are perfectly capable of polite 
conversation, so I see no reason to endure the opposite.

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Richard Heathfield
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