Re: encapsulating directory operations

On 23.05.2025 07:20, Keith Thompson wrote:

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

Yes, sure. - I thought this was what I wrote [with other words];
"might pick it up (or not)".

Honestly, I still don't understand Paul's fixation on the standards
track; i.e. beyond the good feeling one may have when contributing
something [potentially] useful. If it's a sophisticated library and
made available to the public that could be reward enough. (But who
am I to judge. To each his own.)

Janis

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