Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: encapsulating directory operations Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 22:20:13 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 20 Message-ID: <87msb3ucmq.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> References: <100h650$23r5l$1@dont-email.me> <20250520065158.709@kylheku.com> <100i2la$292le$1@dont-email.me> <87a5770xjw.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <100j09o$2f04b$1@dont-email.me> <87tt5ezx9y.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <100j4t3$2foah$1@dont-email.me> <87ldqqzfj0.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <100kak8$2q0s6$1@dont-email.me> <87a575zvmb.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <100o3sc$3ll6t$1@dont-email.me> <87bjrkxonr.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <100ob9f$3n9m3$1@dont-email.me> <100ovse$3ubb5$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 07:20:20 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a36cf223f85aef33d75c7d55cd737c07"; logging-data="4138372"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18da1xbZjX11AZ0rXkUQolQ" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3nItmnydCVU3njZ/1o/TmB0EedM= sha1:BGNNYZKrhmte7EoTgorCUnVFccU= Janis Papanagnou 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 void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */