Re: encapsulating directory operations

On 23/05/2025 13:43, Tim Rentsch wrote:

Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
 

On 20/05/2025 10:18, Keith Thompson wrote:
>

C90 will never be extended.

>
And for that reason it will always be valuable.  Stability
has a value all its own.

 C99 is just as stable as C90, and has been for well over a
decade.

Sure, but it's a different stable.
If it were the same stable, it would be C90.
C99 isn't C90, therefore it isn't the same stable.
If you tell me C99 is a rock, I will not doubt you. But the C90 rock it most certainly isn't.
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