Re: encapsulating directory operations

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
[...]

If you have created a separate library, advertise it so that it
gets used, and if people are widely happy to have that library
suggest it for inclusion. Then committees might pick it up (or
not).

Or it might *not* be included in the language standard because
there's no need to do so.  If a library is popular, programmers
can just use it whether it's part of the standard library or not.
Plenty of popular libraries are not part of the C standard library --
and they don't need to be.

A new library might be included in the standard if the committee decides
that all conforming implementations must provide it.  (Or it might be
made optional.)

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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