From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <200009251913.VAA06376@father.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: (fwd) startup-code
In-Reply-To: <6480-Mon25Sep2000220911+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> from Eli Zaretskii at "Sep 25, 2000 10:09:11 pm"
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 21:13:47 +0200 (MET DST)
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(I wonder if I happened to just mail Eli the previous one?)
According to Eli Zaretskii:
> > > Frankly, the more I think about this change, the less I like it.  Why
> > > do we need to change this?
> > 
> > It isn't nice to pollute the name space. Otherwise DJGPP tries very
> > hard not to. It's a bug. Why not fix it?
> 
> I think that a bug which existed for many years and upon whose
> existence other software relies becomes a kind of feature.

But note that even if we do remove the symbols, it's not hard to
correct the programs that use this feature.


Right,

						MartinS