On Sun, 14 May 2000, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:

> It's certainly not like it would be the first non-portable function
> we've added.  Where adding functions to libraries encourages better
> coding practices, I'm (often) in favour of it, especially if it
> encourages more secure coding practices.  Ultimately everyone
> benefits, and the pain is short-term.

True, but I'd venture that in most of those cases they did something a
little less trivial than one line of code.

Kris

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