Re: the Linux man-pages as an educational tool
Joseph Myers <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 19:31:19 +0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 2 Aug 2026, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > If <string.h> was described as providing functions that exclusively > handle strings, then programmers that only need to handle strings would > naturally self-limit to functions from this header file. A one-line change to the description of <string.h> in the C standard, from "String handling" to "String and memory utilities" or similar, to make clear it's *not* (and never has been) exclusively handling strings, might well make sense. That's all the change that I think makes sense in this area. -- Joseph S. Myers [email protected]