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Re: libraries



> Ooops, maybe I didn't make it clear what I meant: The code in the
> library will stay exactly as it is.  The source files will all have
> the newlines stripped out to make my life easier.  I'll probably end
> up distributing along with the library a stupid little utility I
> churned out over the weekend that can strip or add CR's to a file, so
> that people can convert the library source to whichever format they
> like best.

Sorry. Perhaps it was too late @night yesterday :-)

> It would probably be much easier to hack up an awk script to convert
> your files, or make up a header file "compat.h" with things like
> "#define DTA _DTA" and so on.  What we don't need is a new standard
> that everyone will ignore...let's learn our lesson from XBRA and ARGV,
> and get on with it...

Hm. I don't like to have lots of defines for that. Let's do it cleanly
this time. If we can agree on a common standard, I'll use these definitions
in the next edition of my book.

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