From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:50:03 GMT
Subject: Re: The MIT error
Message-ID: <435E623B.20303@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <435E3892.4020002@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> No they don't. "begin with either is or to and a lowercase letter", 
> meaning (is|to)[a-z].*, just as Morten wrote. is_.* doesn't fall into 
> this category. The underscore exemption is so that users can write their 
> own is_file(), is_whatever() str_replace() and such. Some thought has 
> gone into the standard.
> 

Also, note that we don't include <ctype.h>, and the reasons to stay out 
of its namespace are:

a. potential for confusion (different semantics), and
b. broken system headers.

	-hpa