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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: encapsulating directory operations
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 22:20:13 -0700
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Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
[...]
> If you have created a separate library, advertise it so that it
> gets used, and if people are widely happy to have that library
> suggest it for inclusion. Then committees might pick it up (or
> not).

Or it might *not* be included in the language standard because
there's no need to do so.  If a library is popular, programmers
can just use it whether it's part of the standard library or not.
Plenty of popular libraries are not part of the C standard library --
and they don't need to be.

A new library might be included in the standard if the committee decides
that all conforming implementations must provide it.  (Or it might be
made optional.)

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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