From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 21:03:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] renaming argv_array
Message-ID: <xmqqpn7w99or.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xq_eGaGNXd+0Ggxzofa5M_uESVXDaA-0ktH34fuONya0g@mail.gmail.com>

Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 12:02 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:
>>
>> > 7.31.13 goes on: "Function names that begin with str, mem, or wcs and a
>> > lowercase letter may be added to the declarations in the <string.h>
>> > header."  So the names of the strvec functions are reserved.
>>
>> Ugh, strbuf functions are reserved, too?
>
> At least that paper is proposing a better solution in the long term...

I am not sure what the "potentially" really buys to our fellow
developers.  At least we are not folks "targeting a specific version
of the standard"; we care about the future standards, too X-<.