Re: the Linux man-pages as an educational tool
Douglas McIlroy <[email protected]>
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In the limit one could have a single header file for the entire gamut of the C standard and one for Posix. Who can recite even a tiny fraction of all the functions and constants in those sources? Such fat headers overstuff the namespace, making it all too easy to step on accidentally. As a rule of thumb, I'd say a header with a hundred entries stresses the limits. I don't put much store by arguments about the effect on compilation speed. Doug