Subject: Re: The MIT error

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:50:03 -0700

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> No they don't. "begin with either is or to and a lowercase letter", 
> meaning (is|to)[a-z].*, just as Morten wrote. is_.* doesn't fall into 
> this category. The underscore exemption is so that users can write their 
> own is_file(), is_whatever() str_replace() and such. Some thought has 
> gone into the standard.
> 

Also, note that we don't include <ctype.h>, and the reasons to stay out 
of its namespace are:

a. potential for confusion (different semantics), and
b. broken system headers.

	-hpa