On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 04:33:29PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > [ ... ] > then you can get rid of the old definitions in /*/include/u.h > and declare a flag day. having both seems wrong to me. > you might as well just do a local hack for the go stuff at that > point. > > the hard part is convincing everyone that this large > patch is worth the pain. > > i think it is, but maybe there's something i'm not > thinking of, or a different point of view. > Personally, I like the suggestion, but I think flag days in Plan 9 are best reserved for larger issues than the name of a handful of type definitions. The old type names might have been a bad choice (or a good choice, but contrary to popular opinion), but they do not need to go away, perhaps they can just be deprecated. I'm sure the label "wrong" is too strong.
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